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Typhoon Mangkhut
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Opposition lawmakers have resorted to the usual insults and scaremongering by questioning why soldiers from the Hong Kong garrison were allowed to help in the Typhoon Mangkhut clean-up.

Numerous demonstrations of extreme weather remind us that urban infrastructure and coastal flood defences are still frail when confronted with nature’s forces, exacerbated by climate change.

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Extreme weather has wreaked havoc on livelihoods and local economies, and caused billions of dollars in damage, offering clear evidence the world must act quickly to contain the impact of climate change.

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The current compensation scheme only applies under certain typhoon signals and rainstorm warnings, but the amendment will expand it to include periods of ‘extreme conditions’, which can be declared by the chief secretary.

A warming world puts the Pearl River Delta and Greater Bay Area at higher risk of extreme weather events. Building and restoring coastal wetland ecosystems is a cost-effective approach to mitigating these threats.

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The Mai Po wetlands, which safeguard migratory waterbirds and can act as a buffer against typhoons, must not sacrificed on the false altar of development.

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Thunderstorms battered the city on 59 days between February and October, about 50 per cent more than the average, and there were a record number of hot nights.

Super Typhoon Mangkhut, which left Hong Kong with a HK$3.1 billion (US$397 million) insurance bill as it swept past the city last summer, could have been even more devastating, if it had hit during high tide.

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American artist James Prosek has painted a mural of Hong Kong’s flora and fauna at the Asia Society headquarters in the hope it will encourage Hongkongers to pay more attention to the natural world around us.

The most intense typhoon in Hong Kong’s history severely damaged the power supply, roof, track and grass pitch at Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground. Local residents are inconvenienced by its continued closure – and worried about the next typhoon season.