Climate Change

Definition

"Climate change refers to the change in climate as a result of human activities that cause a change in the atmosphere’s composition, in addition to natural climate variability. Human activities cause an increase in ambient concentration of greenhouse gases, mainly through burning of fossil fuels. The greenhouse gases act like a blanket in the atmosphere, keeping the sun’s energy from radiating back to space, and resulting in a rise in temperature globally – a phenomenon commonly called global warming. This general rise in temperature in turn leads to a proliferation of other problems, such as more frequent heat waves, rise of sea level, reduction in agricultural production, scarcity of water resource, spread of disease, ecological and environmental imbalance, etc." -Govhk

http://www.gov.hk/en/residents/environment/global/climate.htm

Trustworthy site however might be bias 

-Never use etc. in an academic piece of work

Climate change in HK- Initiatives

-Energy Efficiency in buildings

-Reducing Carbon footprint

-Carbon audit (guidelines of the levels of carbon emissions)

-Energy level labels on equipment (mandatory)

-Promotion of using cleaner fuels and renewable energy

-Using energy efficient cars or vehicles

-Wide participation from the government to conquer this issue

-Hong Kong is part of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40)

http://www.c40.org/

What you can do?

-Turning off electrical appliances 

-Maintaining temperature at 25.5 degrees Celsius

-Reducing showers by a minute

-Switching to compact fluorescent lamps

-Recycling use of waste material