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Trudging along Bangkok s hot and dusty streets, green candidates struggle to canvass support ahead of Thailand s election, with record-breaking pollution failing to spur anything more than political hot air.
9:00 - 9:45: Global Warming
9:00 - 9:30 - Edwin Lau, Executive Director of The Green Earth
9:00 - 9:30 - Betty Lau, Campaign Manager of Clean Air Network
9:30 - 9:45 - Nicole Wong, CEO of WWF Hong Kong
9:45 - 10:00: International Golf
9:45 - 10:00 - Alex Jenkins, Director of Communications, The Hong Kong Golf Club
On Monday’s Backchat we re talking about climate change, with the introduction of a new “extremely hot weather” warning and a prediction that this year could be among the hottest recorded.
The Hong Kong Observatory said in a news briefing that we can expect high temperatures and other extreme weather events to increase in the coming years. It came after the release of a United Nations report that warned of climate change affecting the world faster than expected.
So what should we as residents do to protect ourselves from the effects of increasingly hot weather? And with Hong Kong committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, how can w