From Crisis to Opportunity: Bridging Climate and Nature for City Resilience

This fireside chat will examine into the critical interconnections between climate and nature, highlighting how biodiversity and healthy functioning ecosystems are essential to building and maintaining Hong Kong’s resilience amid intensifying extreme weather events and disruption of natural ecosystem services. The two expert speakers will focus on the pivotal role of public, private and other stakeholders in driving change and outline actionable pathways for collaboration, partnership and investment to ensure the city not only adapts to a rapidly changing climate but leverages opportunities to create a more resilient future.

Learnings:

• Gain a deeper understanding of how preserving biodiversity can bolster city-level resilience against extreme weather and physical risk
• Highlight real-world examples of nature-based solutions that can feasibly be integrated into urban planning and policy

Post-event actions:

• Advocate for action that supports biodiversity preservation and utilises nature conservation as a key element of Hong Kong’s resilience strategy
• Spark ideas for potential partnerships between Governments, businesses and NGOs to implement solutions that can address climate adaptation and biodiversity loss