https://www.scmp.com/rss/511611/feed An online content series highlighting HSBC’s far-reaching efforts to push for its global vision of a more sustainable and inclusive world, featuring video-led stories of inspirational people making an impact on communities in Hong Kong and mainland China, a multimedia story about the campaign to clean up Hong Kong’s harbours and a podcast discussing China’s plans to reach carbon-neutrality by 2060. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com [Sponsored article] Nine-year-old Liang Yonger loves books, and her favourite activity is reading fairy tales with her mother. But this girl growing up in Changliu village in Guangdong province knows that is a pleasure many of her friends do not get to enjoy, as they are “left-behind” children. In this rural village, these children are being raised by grandparents or other relatives because their parents have moved away to work in distant cities. “I don’t think they’re actually happy, because it... https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/topics/towards-sustainable-world/article/3166989/china-left-behind-children?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/topics/towards-sustainable-world/article/3166989/china-left-behind-children?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Feb 2022 04:00:20 +0000 [Sponsored article] Few people will have failed to hear mention of the word “blockchain” over the past couple of years, yet many still associate the buzzword only with cryptocurrency. Blockchain – a system in which a record of transactions is maintained across several computers that are linked in a peer-to-peer network – can be applied to many other industries, as Hannah Boon, a business graduate of Hong Kong’s Lingnan University, has discovered. “The technology can be used for food tracking and... https://www.scmp.com/presented/business/topics/towards-sustainable-world/article/3165115/how-fintech-olympiad-helping?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/business/topics/towards-sustainable-world/article/3165115/how-fintech-olympiad-helping?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Jan 2022 09:47:29 +0000 [Sponsored article] Former professional rugby player Lai Pou-fan has never forgotten the euphoria of competing for the Hong Kong women’s team. The highlight of the fly half and fullback’s seven-year career was beating Kazakhstan to reach the semi-finals at the 2014 Asian Games rugby sevens in Incheon, South Korea. “At the end of the game, when the referee blew the final whistle, we were all ecstatic – shouting, running and hugging each other,” Lai, 32, says. “That moment is still fresh in my... https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/topics/towards-sustainable-world/article/3163801/try-rugby?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/topics/towards-sustainable-world/article/3163801/try-rugby?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:00:17 +0000 [Sponsored article] The central government of China has long included energy transition in its five-year plans, but the momentum has picked up since September 2020, when President Xi Jinping pledged to lead the country to carbon neutrality – meaning its net carbon emissions will reach zero – by 2060. He reiterated his vision in a pre-recorded address to the United Nation this year, saying: “China will strive to [reach] peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/towards-sustainable-world/article/3163363/why-its-not-mission?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/towards-sustainable-world/article/3163363/why-its-not-mission?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:29:08 +0000 [Sponsored article] Mainland China’s rapid economic growth famously exceeded the world’s expectations. Since 1978, the country’s gross domestic product has increased at an average rate of almost 10 per cent a year and lifted more than 800 million of its population out of poverty, the World Bank has reported. However, such significant social development, involving reclamation, overgrazing, industrial contamination and urban pollution, has inevitably had an adverse impact on the land’s plant and... https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/topics/towards-sustainable-world/article/3161265/mainland-china-wetlands?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/topics/towards-sustainable-world/article/3161265/mainland-china-wetlands?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Jan 2022 08:15:08 +0000 [Sponsored article] Mention the remote rural settlement of Lai Chi Wo today and images of its hillside farmland areas teeming with organic vegetables and plants including carrots, mustard greens and radishes may come to mind. Located beside a mangrove forest and lush woodland within Plover Cove Country Park, on the northeastern coast of Hong Kong’s New Territories, the verdant village’s reputation for rural revitalisation was enhanced last year when it received the Special Recognition for... https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/topics/towards-sustainable-world/article/3161239/lai-chi-wo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/topics/towards-sustainable-world/article/3161239/lai-chi-wo?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Jan 2022 06:20:22 +0000 Redirect to https://multimedia.scmp.com/native/infographics/article/3160919/cleaning-hong-kong-waters/ https://www.scmp.com/native/news/hong-kong/topics/turning-tide-marine-pollution/article/3160919/cleaning-hong-kong-waters?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/native/news/hong-kong/topics/turning-tide-marine-pollution/article/3160919/cleaning-hong-kong-waters?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Dec 2021 05:10:26 +0000