Reduce Air Pollution
Air pollution is a severe problem – one that we ignore at the risk of our health and our economy.
Lung cancer is now the most common cancer in China, and heart disease is the country's second-biggest cause of death. Smog hangs heavy over Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, where children grow up with asthma and other respiratory illnesses. Every year, Hong Kong loses over HK$2 billion due to health costs and lost productivity.
These problems all go back to air pollution, whose consequences are long-term, sometimes fatal and almost always borne by the public.