https://www.scmp.com/rss/325052/feed Yvonne Lui founded the Yvonne L. K. Lui Foundation http://yvonneluifoundation.org/ in 2013 to support important global causes. She is a board member of Conservation International, where she promotes conservation sustainability in Asia. Yvonne is honorary president of the Hong Kong Federation of Women, and a trustee of Beijing University and the University of International Business and Economics in China. Yvonne helped to establish a disaster relief wing overseeing operations in Sichuan’s 2008... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Climate change is often overlooked in Hong Kong. We don’t suffer the extreme weather many other countries face and natural disasters are limited to the occasional blustery typhoon. But we are not immune. Hong Kong has seen one of its warmest ever starts to the year and we don’t need record books to tell us this. The heat, the pollution, the suffocating air that we breathe is all down to our own making. Media reports on March 1 showed Central district recording an air quality index of 190 –... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2108906/soaring-heat-choking-pollution-hong-kongs-citizens-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2108906/soaring-heat-choking-pollution-hong-kongs-citizens-and?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 31 Aug 2017 03:23:01 +0000