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What should be our new flood prevention strategy in response to the climate crisis?

The HKA breakfast discussion: flood prevention strategy in climate crisis was held on 10 Dec 2022. Participants’ views/suggestions on the development of a comprehensive flood prevention strategy for Hong Kong to address the increase in flood risk brought by climate change were summarised.

What should be our new flood prevention strategy in response to the climate crisis?

Content type: Information

Last updated: 01 September 2023

Author/s: ICE

The world is in a climate crisis of global warming. While the world leaders have reached a consensus in the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties to continue to reduce carbon emissions, the increasing frequency of more extreme weather is affecting people across the globe on a scale never seen before. Hong Kong is by no means an exception.