Supporting Organization: CIWEM, HKGBC, HKGCC, HKGSA, HKIE-Environmental Division

Introduction: Beached yachts, torn up pavements, and devastated coastlines - Typhoon Mangkhut once again demonstrated how vulnerable Hong Kong is against climate change. The city receives around 2,400 mm of rainfall yearly. 80 percent of which occurs during the typhoon season. As a subtropical coastal megacity with long coastlines and low-lying areas, Hong Kong is frequently subjected to floods and storms. Typhoon Hato in 2017 caused HK$8 Billion in losses; Mangkhut is expected to exceed that.

Global warming will worsen flood events by making them more frequent and severe. It is predicted that the Nationally Determined Contributions put forth by countries for the Paris Agreement will create a "hothouse Earth", leaving the world with global temperature 4-5 deg. C above pre-industrial levels and 10-60m higher sea level than today. By 2100, as a result of sea level rise and changing rainfall patterns, what we call 50-year floods would reoccur every three years or less in Hong Kong.

Programme Details:-

Date:     22 March 2019 (Friday)

Time:     09:00 a.m. - 12:55 p.m.

Fee:       Free of charge

Registration link: https://goo.gl/forms/Kc2siNzfMUGxaItw2