Hong Kong
Recovering into a decarbonized future
September 23, 2020
Lawrence Lu
The COVID-19 crisis is not a surprise in the breadth of its impact but only in its timing. We have long been warned by health experts that such a pandemic would one day disrupt our “normal life”. Similarly, we have long been ...
Global
ADMCF Signs Cooperation Letter with United Nations Development Program
September 11, 2020
Lisa Genasci
ADM Capital Foundation and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have signed a letter of intent to cooperate towards a shared vision of economic, social and environmental development in Asia. Collaboration between the ...
Global
Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime Suggests Amendments to Wildlife Trade Laws
September 7, 2020
Lisa Genasci
We are amidst a pandemic and consequent global economic crisis that show just how vulnerable we have made ourselves by ignoring how we interact with wildlife and the natural world. Despite the risks inherent in wildlife trade, ...
Global, Hong Kong
Divided Interests in Wildlife Trade Should be United over Covid-19
June 18, 2020
Sophie le Clue
Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department (C&ED) have the unenviable job of policing the flow of goods into and out of one of the world’s biggest trading hubs – Hong Kong. The city is home to one of the busiest airports ...
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Global, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Regional, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
2019: Year in Review
June 15, 2020
Lisa Genasci
I am writing this amidst the current global public health crisis. We’ve shut down our economies and moved indoors in response. At ADMCF, we have been reflecting on what we can learn from this challenging moment and the role of ...
Global
New Global Initiative to #EndWildlifeCrime
June 5, 2020
Lisa Genasci
New Global Initiative to #EndWildlifeCrime by Addressing Gaps in International Law On June 5th, World Environment Day, ADM Capital Foundation, John Scanlon AO, former Secretary General of CITES, Born Free Foundation, the Food ...
Hong Kong, Regional
Transformative Change is Needed to Tackle Wildlife Crime
April 14, 2020
Sophie le Clue
#EndWildlifeCrime A month ago, as the corona virus gathered steam, like many others we highlighted the role of the wildlife trade in human pandemics and epidemics and the need to close the wildlife trade once and for all. In just ...
Hong Kong, Regional
COVID-19 Lessons for Climate: Expect the Unimaginable and Prepare
April 7, 2020
Lisa Genasci
I’ve been thinking these days about how we take this challenging moment, this public health crisis and consequent loss of life, our paralysed economies, and apply what we are learning to our equally urgent climate emergency. ...
Hong Kong
What COVID-19 Teaches Us and Why it Should Change Us for Good
March 30, 2020
Liberty Mccarthy
Rarely a day goes by without disastrous news about the global environment. Already, 2020 has been a year to remember, from bush fires burning more than 12.6 million hectares of Australia, devastating floods in Indonesia and now, ...
China, Hong Kong
Is This What It Takes to End the Wildlife Trade? #Endwildlifetrade
February 29, 2020
Sophie le Clue
As of 29th February 2019, COVID-2019 has stricken over 85,400 people in a matter of 2-3 months, resulting in the deaths of over 2,830. These numbers should be put into perspective against annual influenza, which according to the ...
Hong Kong
Long Term Decarbonisation Strategy: Our SDC Public Engagement Response
January 7, 2020
Lawrence Lu
In 2019, the government asked the Sustainable Development Council to host a public engagement to help set Hong Kong’s long-term decarbonisation strategy. One of HK 2050 is Now’s first deliverables was a submission to the ...
Hong Kong
Collective Action on Climate for Hong Kong: HK 2050 is Now – A New Initiative
January 6, 2020
Lisa Genasci
There is a growing realisation that the world must take much more ambitious and urgent action towards decarbonisation to avoid potentially irreversible consequences of climate change. Early action on a pathway to net zero ...
