{"id":52602,"date":"2025-10-03T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/52602\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:36:08","slug":"hong-kong-seeks-innovative-green-solutions-to-tackle-climate-change-extreme-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/52602\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong seeks innovative green solutions to tackle climate change, extreme weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLIMATE DEFENCE STRATEGY<\/p>\n<p>But experts caution that sluggish progress risks derailing those targets, leaving the city more vulnerable to extreme heat, rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms.<\/p>\n<p>In the first eight months of this year, the city has already been hit by four typhoons \u2014 compared with none during the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on top of the city\u2019s regular typhoon season, which typically runs from June to October.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Super Typhoon Ragasa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/east-asia\/hong-kong-super-typhoon-ragasa-taiwan-death-toll-5367881\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brought Hong Kong to a standstill<\/a> about a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Hong Kong is grappling with rising temperatures \u2014 a trend expected to worsen as global greenhouse gas emissions continue to climb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on a wide range of assumptions about the greenhouse gas emissions in the future, like in the summer time, the average temperature will increase by about 1 to 3 degrees Celsius for Hong Kong,\u201d said Professor Gao Meng of the Hong Kong Baptist University\u2019s department of geography.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we further consider the impacts of humidity, these numbers can be greater, by about 1.6 to 3.5 degrees Celsius for Hong Kong. That&#8217;s a huge change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong government has set a target for renewable energy to supply up to 10 per cent of the city\u2019s electricity within the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in 2022, renewables accounted for only 0.9 per cent of total power generation, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).<\/p>\n<p>Some observers remain doubtful that the government will meet its goal.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Ho, head of corporate and community sustainability for non-profit organisation WWF Hong Kong, said the city\u2019s building energy code and new building requirements currently lack clear measures to ensure developers incorporate renewable energy systems into new projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLIMATE DEFENCE STRATEGY But experts caution that sluggish progress risks derailing those targets, leaving the city more vulnerable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1477,242,3448,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-52602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}