The government said on Sunday that Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan would link up with the Chinese delegation at Cop29 in the South Caucasus country, which is located at the juncture of eastern Europe and western Asia. “The minister will have bilateral meetings with other representatives to introduce the latest strategies and progress of Hong Kong’s Climate Action Plan 2050,” authorities said. Tse will visit a renewable energy facility in Azerbaijan and return to the city later in the month.
Climate negotiators and observers will descend on the capital, Baku, for the global summit which runs between November 11 and 22 The conference is expected to focus on the funds needed to limit global warming to the Paris Agreement target of 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. Hong Kong’s action plan was published in 2021 by then environment minister Wong Kam-sing and calls for the city to reduce its carbon emissions to 50 per cent of 2005 levels by 2035, before achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
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