Conference Presentation, Fireside Chat
Christine Loh, Under Secretary for the Environment in Hong Kong: Talks at GS Session Highlights
- The Hong Kong government intends to clean local pollution through evidence-based solutions, legal adaptations, and collaboration with community stakeholders to secure political and business support.
- Air pollution remains a major priority for the Chinese government, prompting plans for national collaboration with relevant authorities and an expectation of a new national plan on clean soil.
- The Hong Kong and Guangdong governments will review their performance by the end of the current year, based on the 2012–2015 period, to firm up or set pollution reduction targets for 2020.
- Successful Hong Kong-Guangdong regional collaboration is being evaluated for potential application in other Chinese regions, such as the Yangtze River Delta.
- The Development Bureau plans to establish a harbour front authority to coordinate infrastructure works near the harbor and expects to release a comprehensive marine park plan in the near future.
- Hong Kong plans to declare at least four additional marine parks over the next seven to eight years and will identify its role within the upcoming national water plan.
- The city aims to realize its full potential as one of Asia's great cities by engaging public and private partnerships for technology and capital deployment while maintaining the capacity to move quickly on decisions where government and private sector alignment exists.