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LATEST NEWS & VIEWS

COP27: While suffering countries plead for action on climate change, China stokes its coal furnaces

“Until China drastically cuts its coal burning, climate chaos is guaranteed, regardless of what other countries do,” writes Paul G. Harris.

by Paul G. Harris 12:00, 26 November 202218:28, 25 November 2022

COP27 agrees to fund climate damages, no progress on emission cuts

The UN climate summit wrapped on Sunday with an agreement to help vulnerable countries cope with devastating climate impacts, with the EU calling on richer emergency economies like China to also cough up cash.

by AFP 02:00, 21 November 202212:33, 21 November 2022

‘It’s happening to us as well’: Hong Kong climate advocates sound alarm at COP27 in absence of city officials

With government officials absent at the climate summit, a local youth delegation told HKFP that Hong Kong was already seeing the effects of global heating. “People with limited resources will suffer more,” says Eva Yeung of Hong Kong’s Red Cross.

by Mercedes Hutton 17:53, 20 November 202217:53, 20 November 2022

Climate crisis: Private sector must play its part – but beware of greenwashing

by Guest Contributor 11:00, 24 January 202315:23, 17 January 2023

Climate crisis: Why civil society needs to be invited to the negotiating table

by Guest Contributor 11:00, 22 January 202319:17, 20 January 2023

How Chinese diplomacy helped seal historic nature deal

by AFP 08:34, 20 December 202212:24, 20 December 2022

Sweltering September breaks 3 hot weather records in Hong Kong as temperatures continue to rise

18:34, 3 October 202218:35, 3 October 2022

Event: Environmental NGO Green Sense invites Hongkongers to take part in No Air Con Night 2022

12:30, 3 October 202215:12, 3 October 2022

Hong Kong’s only drinks carton recycler may halt collections on Sat amid dispute with gov’t-backed landlord

08:00, 28 September 202210:43, 28 September 2022

Note from a dying planet: Don’t just do something, panic!

12:00, 24 September 202212:09, 22 September 2022

1.6 million forced from homes as Typhoon Muifa lashes eastern China

11:45, 15 September 202213:55, 15 September 2022

Dark side of the moon festival: Mountains of Mid-Autumn waste sour the occasion for Hong Kong green groups

18:30, 9 September 202219:10, 9 September 2022

COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS

National insecurity: China endangers the world when the climate crisis falls hostage to a manufactured one

Two recent events – Beijing’s heightened bellicosity toward Taiwan and a summer of environmental disasters across China – have showcased the increasingly misguided priorities of officialdom in Beijing and Hong Kong. The effects of climate change are harming China and costing Chinese lives, but officials tasked with protecting the country and its people have chosen…

12:00, 28 August 202214:34, 26 August 2022

How China’s fishing fleet is devastating ecosystems, harming poor countries and contributing to conflict

The rise of China over the last several decades has been accompanied by adverse impacts on the global environment, ranging from plastic pollution and destruction of the world’s forests to emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases. The world’s fisheries have also suffered the effects of China’s rise. Those fisheries are in crisis. According to the United…

10:00, 12 March 202218:10, 8 March 2022

FEATURES

It’s time to switch off to save the planet, ex-chief of Observatory Lam Chiu-ying tells aircon-addicted Hongkongers

Lam Chiu-ying’s message is a hard sell in Hong Kong’s sweltering summers but that won’t stop the former Observatory chief from campaigning for the climate.