Serving as a major platform for global finance to enter China's reformed economy, Hong Kong's financial district has established its role as one of Asia's most important financial centers. However, conventional banks are among the biggest investors in the causes of climate change, and Hong Kong is no different. Our economy, much of which is situated in the central business district between Central and Admiralty, is inextricably linked to the climate crisis.

While many of us are aware of the impacts of plastic itself, we often overlook the producing end. Not only does burning fossil fuels emit a colossal amount of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere—posing many environmental and public health risks—but the industry also disproportionately affects marginalised communities and communities of colour—making it a prominent social justice issue.

“Carbon, that is currently one of the biggest problems in our atmosphere, can be one of the biggest solutions when it is in our soil.” - Ryland Engelhart. At the thought of soil, most of us conjure images of dirt...simple particles that belong under our feet. However, it appears that soil has the potential to regenerate our Earth and reverse climate change.

A woman bleeds for an average of 2535 days in her lifetime, the equivalent to approximately seven years. Yet, the lack of access to sanitary products and menstrual hygiene products affects over 800 million women a day. Period poverty is a very real and severe phenomenon which contributes to climate change and inequality. In this article, I address this issue and one thing we can do to alleviate it.

Last year, I spent three months living a completely different lifestyle. From staying in a rural village for nine days to trekking at 15,000ft for weeks, what immersing myself in these customs and practices made me realize is that culture and climate change are far more interconnected than I’d ever considered. In this article, I explore 10 things I learnt from living out of my backpack in Nepal for 85 days.

The act of hopping on a plane and going across countries is largely detrimental towards the environment. I fail to see an immediate way to cut out high-carbon travelling right now, but what I believe we can do in the meantime, is make lifestyle changes to reduce this colossal impact. Over the months, I have acquired some tokens of advice on how we may lower our impact while travelling, which I’ve listed out in this post.

A plant-based diet clearly still makes a massive difference in terms of climate change, but we just need to extend this conversation past the simple decision of what types of food we should and should not eat, to the way our food is cultivated, sourced, and consumed. This conversation must include the topic of what we do after we eat—and with the food that fails to make it to our bodies.