The document discusses climate change and what can be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. It begins with an overview of sustainable development goals and climate change topics like causes, impacts, and projections. It then explains how the pandemic demonstrates humanity's ability to make significant changes and that recovery efforts should focus on transitioning to renewable energy and more sustainable practices. Individual actions like reducing consumption and advocacy are important contributions to addressing climate change.

1. Climate Change
& The Pandemic

2. Source. Survey on People’s Attitudes towards Climate Change. HKPORI (2020)

7. What to expect today ?
• What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
• What exactly is climate change?
• What does the pandemic teach us about the climate change?
• What actions we can do individually to combat climate change?
• Q&A
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8. 17 Sustainable
Development Goals
Set in 2015 by
the United Nations
169 specific
targets
To be achieved
by 2030
THE GLOBAL GOALS
For Sustainable Development
UNIVERSAL TRANSFORMATIVE INTEGRATED

10. SDG 13 Climate Action

11. CAN YOU
GO FAR FOR
CLIMATE?
Future generations will
most likely look back at
this moment as the single
most significant turning
point for action.
So take a deep breath
and decide that
collectively, we can do
this. And you will play
your part.
Christiana Figueres
Former UN Climate Chief who oversaw the historic Paris
Climate Agreement and now is co-founder of Global
Optimism.

12. What is
climate?
• Weather = short time
• Climate = average
weather over long time
• Highly complex system

13. What cause climate to change?
§ NOT only human activities à Greenhouse gas
§ Changes in atmosphere
§ Natural processes: Volcanoes, tectonic plate movement,
changes in the sun

14. Climate Change = Global warming?
Climate Change Global Warming
A broader term refers to long-term
changes in climate, including average
temperature and precipitation and wind
patterns
The increase of the Earth’s average
surface temperature due to a build-up of
greenhouse gas in the atmosphere
Includes the “side effects’ of warming –
melting glaciers, heavier rainstorms, more
frequent drought
Refer to rising surface temperature only

15. Climate Change Quiz –
Please go to Kahoot.it. PIN: 549847

16. Climate Change = Global warming?

17. Climate Change = Global warming?
Human impacts on Carbon Cycle

18. 99% nitrogen and oxygen, with important trace greenhouse gases:
• Water vapor (10- 50,000ppm)
• Carbon dioxide (400 ppm)
• Methane (1.8 ppm)
• Nitrous oxide (330ppb)
The Science behind Climate Change :
Atmospheric Gases
Without the greenhouse effect, Earth’s
surface temperature would be below
freezing (-17oC).

19. Greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect is a process that occurs when gases in Earth's
atmosphere trap the Sun's heat.

20. Climate Change = Global warming?
Global warming is affecting extreme events

21. Climate Change = Global warming?

23. Climate Change = Global warming?
A crucial role played by the
oceans involves the mixing
of surface heat into the
deep layers
à redistribution of heat
around the globe.
Oceans are Warming
The vast majority of Earth’s heat
is stored in the oceans.
The heat in the world’s
oceans reached a new
record level in 2019 L

24. Climate Change = Global warming?
Sea Levels Are Rising
Caused by
- Warm, melting waters
- Melting ice sheets
(Antarctica, Greenland)
- Melting glaciers

26. Climate Change = Global warming?

27. Climate Change: the future?

28. What to Expect in Climate Changed Hong Kong

29. Longer HOT summer No Winter
2019
2020

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A hotter, wetter climate, with heavier
rainfall interspersed by longer dry periods
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31. Implications of temperature change for wildlife
Green Turtles at Sham Wan

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Increasing rainfall variability
(causing water scarcity and drought)

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Rising sea levels in Hong Kong
A study by Climate Central estimates that 1.3 million Hongkongers could be hit by flooding
every year in areas such as Tai Po, Sha Tin, and at the Hong Kong International Airport.
Sea level in HK:
1954-2019 (HKO)

34. Survey on HK People’s Attitudes towards Climate Change
Source: Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (January 2020)
§ 84% think the impact of climate change on future generations is going to be
significant.
§ 84% claimed they had very often practised energy saving to reduce carbon
emission in the past year, usually by using more public transport.
§ Most people think the government has the main responsibility for tackling
climate change. And over half did not think it was doing enough to reduce
carbon emissions.
§ Most people think climate change mitigation and adaptation measures should
be funded by government reserves and “polluter pays” tax income. More than
70 % are willing to pay more for electricity to fund an increase in renewable
energy use. On average, they are willing to pay about 20% more.

35. What the coronavirus means for climate change

36. COVID-19 Climate Change
Death Rate
(2020)
14 per 100,000
people
Death Rate
(2060)
14 per 100,000 people
Death Rate
(2100)
High emission scenario:
73 extra deaths per 100,000
people)
Low emission scenario:
10 per 100,000

37. https://www.hypergiant.com/covid/

38. “A crisis like this brings to people's
minds that maybe the risk we’ve
been talking about with climate
change is not so far fetched”
Joaquim Vieira Ferreira Levy

39. Source: Venngage

43. Why Covid-19 is more proof that the world must focus on climate change

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