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Study flags northern Hong Kong zones as highest climate disaster risk

The Hong Kong Red Cross report says more than half the city faces high-risk threats from multiple hazard types, and urges resilience planning to be built into new development blueprints.

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Parts of northern Hong Kong face the highest risk of climate-related disasters, according to a study released by the Hong Kong Red Cross.

The charity said its report found that more than 50 percent of the city faces high-risk threats from two or three hazard types at the same time, including typhoons, extreme heat, or fires.

Hong Kong Red Cross CEO Eleanor Lam Chuen-ping said the risk map is intended to give sectors earlier insights into regional disaster risks during the initial stages of planning new communities, so disaster prevention and preparedness can be integrated into development blueprints.

The Red Cross used spatial and statistical data from the government, the Hong Kong Observatory, and its own public questionnaire survey to assess vulnerability across 42 factors, and it divided the city into nearly 300 zones based on the government’s Tertiary Planning Units, offering a more refined analysis than the city’s usual 18 districts.

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