Hong Kong’s Climate Change Action Plan 2030+ Shirley Lee Hong Kong, China 6 April 2017 IAIA, Montreal, Canada #IAIA17
Acknowledgement Environment Bureau, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in collaboration with members of the Steering Committee on Climate Change as main source of content for this presentation Hong Kong Institute of EIA for support to attend IAIA2017 #IAIA17
Sources and References Hong Kong Climate Change Action Plan 2030+ www.climateready.gov.hk Hong Kong Climate Change Report 2015 Environment Bureau in collaboration with other Policy Bureaux #IAIA17
This Booklet was officially launched on 20 January 2017 www.climateready.gov.hk #IAIA17
Paris Agreement and Hong Kong China formally signed the Paris Agreement on 22 April 2016, and ratified it on 3 September 2016. The Agreement came into force on 4 November. Hong Kong, as part of China, has acceded to the Paris Agreement and will follow its reporting timeline. #IAIA17
Major Climate Change Impacts in Hong Kong #IAIA17
Targets set with timeline to achieve What gets measured gets done #IAIA17
Hong Kong’s Carbon Emissions Electricity generation Buildings Transport Wastes and others #IAIA17
Influence… Fuel mix for Energy Supply - 2030+ Phase “down” use of coal Replace coal with natural gas Increase renewable energy [solar, wind] …..Uncertainty #IAIA17
Increase… Renewable Energy in Hong Kong #IAIA17
Reduce… Electricity consumption #IAIA17
Encourage… more Public and Private Partnership Government Building Sector Partnership: Green Building: new retrofit Green procurement of construction material Award winner #IAIA17
Promote… more Energy Savings: Public Infra-structures #IAIA17
Energy consumption: Transport #IAIA17
Hong Kong’s per capita transport-related emissions low Keep… Hong Kong’s per capita transport-related emissions low #IAIA17
Cap… Growth of Private Cars #IAIA17
Pedestrians’ Connectivity & Accessibility Improve… Pedestrians’ Connectivity & Accessibility #IAIA17
Climate Change Mitigations Slope Maintenance Landslide Flood control #IAIA17
Mitigation: Infra-structure to protect airport highway against landslide #IAIA17
Mitigation: BSAP & Greening Protect Ecosystem Cooling effect #IAIA17
Leadership & Engagement & Publicity #IAIA17
Engagement, engagement, engagement… #IAIA17
shirsllee422@gmail.com Thank you #IAIA17