It is getting harder to write a neat reflection on Shanghai Climate Week.
For us, it is no longer just an event platform. It has become a place we helped build with love, care, and people — and one that has given us back so much trust, hope, and responsibility.
This year, together with Shanghai Climate Week, New Energy Nexus China co-curated the “Next Decade” Energy Transition Series.
The idea was simple: the energy transition no longer lacks ambition. What the next decade needs is execution — real scenarios, workable business models, patient capital, risk-sharing tools, and trusted partnerships that can turn ideas into systems, and systems into results.
Across the week, we hosted and joined 6 sessions, welcomed participants and delegations from 10 countries, engaged 50+ delegation members, and facilitated 10+ business matchmaking meetings and professional exchange sessions.
But the numbers are only part of the story.
What stayed with me most was the trust being built. International partners came to Shanghai not only to listen, but to see, ask, compare, and understand China’s clean energy development on the ground — how technologies scale, how supply chains work, how companies compete, and how business models are tested under real market pressure.
At the same time, Chinese companies are looking outward with equal seriousness. They want to understand overseas markets, global standards, regulatory expectations, financing models, cultural gaps, and what it really takes to make real friends (yes we all need friends!), and step into the local ecosystems.
This two-way curiosity matters. Real climate cooperation does not begin with perfect alignment. It begins with the first contact, honest explanation, and the patience to stay in the room long enough to build confidence.
For NEX China, this is where our role becomes most meaningful. We work with the people and companies who actually deliver the transition: founders, operators, engineers, investors, corporates, policymakers, and ecosystem builders.
Shanghai Climate Week 2026 reminded us that the next decade of energy transition will not be defined by ambition alone. It will be shaped by execution, alignment, and trust — and by the people willing to do the hard, patient, often invisible work of building bridges.
That is the work we are here for.❤🌏💪
Leo Horn-Phathanothai
Jurei Yada
Jasper (Shaojie) Shen
Tristan Tremschnig
Jack Yuan
Yin Yu
Fabrizio Buccino
Muhammad Basit Ghauri
Muhammad Sheraz Aamir
LIN SUN
Emmanuel DELPLANQUE (洪长森)
Libin Song
Andrew Chang
Zeeshan Ashfaq
Xuan Xie
Sze Ping LO
Danny Kennedy
Remoca(Yiran) Shi
Laurent Bardon
Laurent Arribe
Alexandra H.
Eric Ma