Our Journey
RESET hires its first employees, Liam Salter as CEO, Brian Au as Senior Consultant and Randi Lit as office manager.
Our first office was shared with a carbon trading firm in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. We started out with three employees but once we found out that our business partner wasn’t paying the rent we came in at night, grabbed the best furniture and the microwave and relocated to the world’s smallest office in Sheung Wan.
We won our first client – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, delivering their carbon footprint (Scope 1 and 2), which was one of the first universities in Asia to start thinking about reducing its emissions. There was no such thing as a scope 3 inventory in those days!
We started working with our first corporate client, Cathay Pacific, to develop the carbon inventory for their ground-based business, including all their overseas properties and airport offices. This was the start of our long-term relationship, through which we have worked collaboratively together over the past 15 years. Today, our work for Cathay Pacific focuses on its Scope 3 footprint.
We won a global tender to support a Walmart energy efficiency programme. This was a pivotal moment for the business and triggered the development of the engineering solutions that are so critical to our business today.
We started to work with our first truly global client - Edelman PR company. Having already delivered projects for their Hong Kong team, we scaled up to build their initial global carbon inventory. We went on to work together for over 10 years, setting carbon targets and reducing emissions from their major offices and business air travel.
Our collaboration with the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) and 18 Chinese textile mills led to the scaling of the Clean by Design Programme, which focused on deploying NRDC’s ten best practices for textile mills enabling them to save money and reduce pollution. This multi-year initiative soon evolved to become one of Apparel Impact Institute’s core programmes.
Pushing ourselves to remain at the frontier, we set up our engineering capabilities, building out a specialist team of carbon engineers that enabled us to execute on implementation projects alongside our consulting work. This was an important and strategic move to stay ahead of the rapidly changing market and increase the impact we could have on client’s carbon footprints.
Our first major brand strategy project was for VF, one of the world’s largest apparel and footwear manufacturers, sporting a range of iconic brands. We developed a supply chain engagement strategy for the purpose driven business and went on to develop supplier environmental guides and a Vietnamese carbon programme, collaborating in-depth with major suppliers on carbon targets and reduction programmes that really moved the dial.
Central Textiles Group becomes one of the first Asian major textiles suppliers to complete the Supplier Facilities Module assessment of the newly released Higg Index 1.0, contracting RESET Carbon to assess data integrity and scoring of the facility’s performance against the launched version 1.0.
Priding ourselves on our agility, our services continued to evolve as the market matured and our customers’ ambitions grew. From 2014 onwards, we saw brands starting to think more carefully about moving beyond working with individual suppliers and into supplier portfolios where real progress can be made.
As the business grew the look and feel of the company needed a refresh and RESET rebranded, marking the next chapter of our journey, and signalling a step change in our growth ambitions.
SBTi introduced Scope 3 targets - this shift towards linking ambition to global emissions trajectories and temperature targets was the catalyst for many companies to think seriously about carbon as a risk / opportunity issue, framing the idea that if you are not moving fast enough then your progress is not credible. This was the start of a transformative move towards brands focusing on Scope 3 emissions and targets, leading to RESET evolving its service offering.
A whole new attitude towards supply chains is now felt more prominently in the market, meaning that carbon strategy must cover the whole supply chain rather than just selected manufacturers.
We identified the need for in-depth renewable energy solutions for corporate businesses. act renewable was established as a joint venture between renewable energy developer BayWa r.e and RESET Carbon. act renewable is headquartered in Germany, with satellite offices in Asia, and they support corporates with navigating the complex renewable energy transition.
Swire Properties was the first real estate developer in Greater China to receive SBTi validation. This was our first client that we guided through the rigorous validation process and established our credentials as the go-to ‘deep’ carbon services provider in Hong Kong.
An innovative and impactful initiative developed by RESET Carbon and Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) for action-oriented apparel brands and their suppliers across Asia to support with setting actionable supply chain carbon targets which has since evolved into the largest manufacturer carbon implementation programme in the sector.
Building upon their European experience, act renewable adapted its offering to the Southeast Asian market, with a strong focus on supporting corporate supply chains with renewable energy procurement.
Our Hong Kong team supported Gammon with the approval of their near-term science-based emissions reduction targets from SBTi. A first for any construction and engineering company in Greater China.
If all the action plans have been developed for brands involved with the CLP are fully implemented, RESET will have supported in the avoidance of 3million tonnes of CO2.
BayWa r.e., our long-term partner in the act renewable joint venture, acquired a minority share in RESET Carbon. A global developer of renewable energy and clean technology projects, BayWa r.e’s own mission is tightly linked to a shared net zero vision.
We launched a new service arm supporting businesses choose fit-for-purpose carbon management technology solutions, seamlessly adopt these solutions, and maximize the value on the solution investment.
With financing increasingly seen as an integral part of the solution for clients to drive decarbonization, RESET partners with one of the most innovative banks in the region, DBS, to develop new solutions for our collective customers.
With a long history working with Pan-Asia businesses and supply chains, our bricks-and-mortar presence in Southeast Asia allowed us to deepen our client relationships and support businesses across the region in major industries including food and beverage supply chains, electronics, real estate, and finance and investment.
RESET Carbon has merged with LRQA, the leading global assurance partner, as part of our continued mission to deliver deep carbon reductions for corporate customers in Asia-Pacific.
News & Insights
Getting Scope 3 Right: Practical Approaches to ASRS Reporting for Retailers and Consumer Brands
Join RESET Carbon and Beyond Sustainable Retail Group on October 22, 2026, for a practical webinar with Joe Poon and Rick Lambell on building a robust, assurance-ready Scope 3 inventory under Australia’s mandatory climate reporting requirements.
RESET Carbon and Made2Flow Launch Joint Webinar Series: Accounting for Facility-Level Decarbonization in Scope 3 Reporting
Join RESET Carbon and Made2Flow to explore why supplier-driven facility-level decarbonization efforts often fail to appear in corporate Scope 3 inventories, and what companies can do to better capture, quantify, and report these emissions reductions.
RESET Carbon at SEMICON West 2026: Decarbonizing Semiconductor Operations and Supply Chains
Meet the RESET Carbon team at SEMICON West, October 13-15 in San Francisco, to discuss corporate decarbonization, renewable energy procurement in Asia, and Scope 3 supplier engagement for the semiconductor and electronics industry.