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Written by: Lao Minyi
2021-01-28 19:31
Last update date: 2021-01-28 19:31
The new "Policy Address" announced that the Hong Kong Government will strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and will update the "Hong Kong Climate Action Blueprint" in the middle of this year to set more aggressive strategies and measures to reduce carbon emissions.
The Social Enterprise Low-Carbon Vision Center today (28th) published the "Hong Kong Climate Action Report and Hong Kong Report Table 2020", describing that Hong Kong’s overall carbon reduction performance is only "C", a slight improvement over the previous report "C-". The worst-performing areas include renewable energy power generation, health protection, typhoons and sea level rise and governance.
The group urges the government to set specific targets for drastically reducing carbon emissions in the next few years, timetables for achieving the standards, performance indicators, etc., to actively respond to climate change.
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Low-Carbon Vision Center released a second report on the performance of Hong Kong’s climate action. The overall score is only "C". The main reason is that although the Hong Kong government has set a goal to achieve carbon neutrality, it has In terms of level rise and governance, the performance is only "D+".
Huan Tuan explained in the comments that although the government has implemented feed-in tariffs to stimulate the private use of solar power, power generation accounts for only a very small number. The new crown pneumonia epidemic and heat waves have also greatly affected the health of the public; there is no government to prevent sea level rise Coastal construction; nor has the Hong Kong government actively led the response to climate change issues.
John Sayer, research director of Low-Carbon Ideas Workshop in charge of the Paris Climate Monitoring Project, said that the Hong Kong government started to formulate a long-term carbon reduction strategy as early as early 2019, but it took more than a year for the Sustainable Development Committee to go there. At the end of the year, the results of the public consultation were submitted to the government, which was disappointing.
Affected by global warming, Hong Kong has been extremely hot in recent years, breaking high temperature records many times.
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Zhuang Chenyou, co-founder and CEO of Low-Carbon Ideas, said frankly that Hong Kong’s performance was disappointing and negative, and he felt "hate iron but not steel". He was even more pessimistic about the green recovery because the Hong Kong government is still working on or thinking about it. Projects such as the three-run and artificial islands are also worried about retaliatory consumption after the epidemic, so they are holding a wait-and-see attitude towards updating the "Hong Kong Climate Action Blueprint".
He also pointed out that the crisis of climate disasters is on the rise, such as the increase in super typhoons and extremely hot weather, but the Hong Kong government is still conservative and can no longer respond to climate disasters with a leisurely attitude. The more affluent and carbon-emitting cities must do their best to reduce row.
In addition, the "Hong Kong Climate Action Report" pointed out that agreeing that the government "will strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050" is an important policy goal, but the length of the "policy address" is far less than the construction of the third airport runway and automobile facilities. Other infrastructure projects are attracting attention, questioning the authorities' emphasis on implementing carbon neutrality.
The Environmental Group recommends that the government set specific targets for Hong Kong's substantial emission reductions in the next few years, timetables for achieving the standards, performance indicators, and formulate overall budgets to encourage business and citizens to support carbon reduction.
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