https://www.scmp.com/rss/324358/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Sustainability policies in government and business are mostly about increasing energy efficiency and reducing waste. These are important, but we need to take a longer-term view. Keeping a city like Hong Kong moving is only possible with large inputs of coal and natural gas, to produce electricity and fuel to carry people and goods into and around the city. Nuclear power currently supplies about 23 per cent of Hong Kong’s electricity. The rest of the electricity and the non-electrified transport... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2091975/how-hong-kong-can-find-sustainable-future-beyond-oil-coal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2091975/how-hong-kong-can-find-sustainable-future-beyond-oil-coal?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 May 2017 06:48:12 +0000 Some people say global warming isn't occurring. Or it's not caused by humans, and is just natural climate variation. A small number of scientists and academics appear periodically in the mass media expressing such views. Sociologists, journalists, science writers and scientists have done some research on these 'global warming sceptics'. Here is what they have found. First, most of them are not active climate researchers and have published little or nothing in peer-reviewed scientific journals... https://www.scmp.com/article/996191/cold-light-day?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/996191/cold-light-day?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:00:00 +0000 If a third runway is added to Hong Kong International Airport, it would not be fully operational until the 2020s. The Airport Authority argues that it is necessary, based on projections of rising demand for air travel. But an important consideration is missing in most of the debates: the probability that so-called 'peak oil' (the peak and subsequent decline in worldwide oil production) will occur during the next two decades. 'Peak oil' analysis is based on a comparison between major... https://www.scmp.com/article/975767/plan-third-runway-wont-fly-without-fuel?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/975767/plan-third-runway-wont-fly-without-fuel?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:00:00 +0000