South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Central under water in 80 years? Hong Kong’s coming climate crisis” – below is their description.
Over the past 40 years, typhoons in Asia have become stronger and more destructive because of rising ocean temperatures, according to climate scientists. And based on most projections, severe storms are likely to become stronger and more frequent. Climatologists predict that by 2050, Hong Kong will be hit with at least one super typhoon, on average, every single year. Is the city of 7.69 million people doing enough to prepare for the coming climate crisis? To find out, the SCMP’s Alkira Reinfrank spoke with climate experts and people who had their lives turned upside down by the last super typhoon, Mangkhut.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.