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Green buildings on rise as Hong Kong prepares to host urban development conference
1,800 international experts to discuss how good planning and design can help resolve urban challenges
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Hong Kong will host its largest ever conference on sustainable buildings and urban development next month, with tackling climate change in the face of rapid urbanisation the key theme.
About 1,800 international experts, academics, officials and policy leaders from 55 countries are expected to attend, including a former head of the United Nation’s top climate body, Christiana Figueres.
Figueres led the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to last year and helped spearhead negotiations for the landmark Paris climate agreement. She is now a vice-chair of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.
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The June 5-7 event, organised by the city’s Construction Industry Council and Green Building Council, took three years of planning and will feature 100 discussion sessions and roundtables.
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“It’s a platform for experts to interact so that we can have new thinking and new direction in the green building movement so as to combat climate change,” Conrad Wong Tin-cheung, who chairs the organising committee, said.
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