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A bigger push for battery-powered lorries and taxis is needed for Hong Kong to cut emissions more quickly as part of its wider carbon-reduction drive, a policy think tank has said. In a report released on Friday reviewing the city’s progress towards achieving its climate goals, Civic Exchange also called for ending new registrations of…
Andrew Fung Ho-keung recalls the “golden days” for Hong Kong’s think tanks. He said there was a time when the work of his Hong Kong Policy Research Institute, one of the city’s oldest think tanks, could significantly shape policymaking. In 2018, during a months-long government-led debate on land and housing supply initiated by then leader…
The Hong Kong government must quickly come up with a new business model for the city’s two franchised bus companies, which face nearly HK$6 billion (US$771 million) in investments to overhaul their fleets to reach zero-emissions targets, according to a think tank. The clock is ticking because the companies have less than eight years to…