Hong Kong’s data centre boom: Powering innovation or jeopardising climate goals?
Steven Chan writes that “behind the gleaming servers and promised economic gains lies a sobering reality: our data centres are becoming one of the territory’s largest electricity consumers and carbon emitters, and current energy conservation policy is dangerously out of date.”
World leaders must act with conscience to prevent climate hell
Ten years have passed since the hopeful Paris Agreement was endorsed by almost 200 nations during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop21) in Paris back in 2015. Will the Cop30 currently under way near the Amazon rainforest in Brazil bring us some good news?
Onshore power in Hong Kong could bring about a sea change in emissions
The Green Earth and Clean Air Network found that there was a 43 per cent rise in nitrogen dioxide, an air pollutant, at Kai Tak Terminal when an onshore-power-capable vessel, Piano Land, was docked in August. Such a problem could have been avoided. The authorities must speed up the installation of shore power for cruise and container terminals in stages to prevent Hong Kong from lagging too far behind other ports.




