South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Chinese mainland begins supplying Hong Kong with carbon-neutral liquefied natural gas” – below is their description.
Mainland China started supplying the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with carbon-neutral natural gas on December 19, 2021. The greenhouse gases released to produce and transport the energy were offset from buying carbon credits. Hong Kong has set a target of cutting its carbon emissions by 26-36 per cent by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Power generation is currently the largest source of carbon emissions in Hong Kong, accounting for more than 65 per cent of the city’s total emissions. Hong Kong’s energy supply comprises natural gas (48 per cent), nuclear energy (28 per cent) and coal (24 per cent).
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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”.
