SPECIAL REPORT - How climate change(s) Macau

Tuvalu in Macau?

In 2021, the foreign minister of Tuvalu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, delivered a speech at the COP26 climate summit while standing knee-deep in the ocean, dramatically illustrating the severe impact of global warming on his country. READ MORE

“Macau should review its carbon emissions from the perspective of whole life-cycle thinking”

Qingbin Song, a professor at Macau University of Science and Technology, is one of Macau’s most authoritative voices in the study of the environmental impacts of climate change.

The weather is “broken” and Macau has already noticed that

Average temperatures are increasing, but in contrast, we have never had a December with such low temperatures as in 2022.
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“Climate change brings complex legal issues”

Eva Jiang Yi Wa is one of the first lawyers in Macau specializing in, among other areas, environmental law, energy, and climate change.

China’s land subsidence risk

China’s massive wave of urbanisation is threatened by land subsidence, a study indicates.

Western part of Peninsula “is more sensitive to storm surge”

In a scenario where sea waters rise by one metre, the majority of the Macau Peninsula will become a maximum risk zone

Extreme precipitation and flood disaster risk

In the context of the GBA, there are some cities more at risk than Macau

Extreme heat events

Tourism activities involving a large number of visitors have led to an increase in Macau’s average temperature

The implications of hyper-urbanisation

Urban heat island effect, flood-heatwave events, extreme precipitation, or coastal flooding are the main worries

“Macau will experience more extreme weather events”

Well-known Hong Kong meteorologist Clarence Fong recalls when flooding caused by astronomical tides was uncommon in the Inner Harbour
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“Macau is significantly affected by climate change” – IMF

The IMF puts the need for economic diversification alongside what it calls “high exposure to climate-related shocks”, which “poses long-term concerns”
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Bad luck being Inner Harbour

The tidal gate has been abandoned, but the connection between the rainwater pumping station and drainage system moves forward
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