Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Frenetic, modern Hong Kong looks like the archetypal polluting, high-carbon modern city.
Bizarrely, it isn't. Its carbon emissions are just one fourth of the US level.
How come?
Two of the reasons are radical departures from the norm.
First, every building has TWO water systems, one of which supplies seawater to each apartment.
Second, the govt prices cars so high that 90pc of residents use public transport for commuting every day (compare 8% in UK and 3% in the US).
But isn't Hong Kong lagging behind Shenzhen in the switch to electric cars? It has been, but today, two-thirds of new cars being purchased in Hong Kong are clean energy vehicles.
The figures came from Dr Samuel Choi of the Environmental Protection department, who appeared at a recent forum organized by Friday Culture, the HK Coalition, and Ta Kung Wen Wei Media.
Frenetic, modern Hong Kong looks like the archetypal polluting, high-carbon modern city.
Bizarrely, it isn't. Its carbon emissions are just one fourth of the US level.
How come?
Two of the reasons are radical departures from the norm.
First, every building has TWO water systems, one of which supplies seawater to each apartment.
Second, the govt prices cars so high that 90pc of residents use public transport for commuting every day (compare 8% in UK and 3% in the US).
But isn't Hong Kong lagging behind Shenzhen in the switch to electric cars? It has been, but today, two-thirds of new cars being purchased in Hong Kong are clean energy vehicles.
The figures came from Dr Samuel Choi of the Environmental Protection department, who appeared at a recent forum organized by Friday Culture, the HK Coalition, and Ta Kung Wen Wei Media.
