Research Centre for Carbon-Strategic Catalysis
The establishment of the Research Centre for Carbon-Strategic Catalysis (RC-CSC) aims to supply a platform that can strengthen the research collaborations and efforts in PolyU to achieve more impactful outputs on the advanced catalyst design and synthesis for the sustainable energy development strategies. The Hong Kong government has announced that Hong Kong would strive to achieve carbon neutrality before 2050.
Currently, electricity generation was the largest source of carbon emissions, accounting for about 66% of the total emissions in Hong Kong, followed by transport (about 18%) and waste (about 7%, mainly from landfills). Therefore, it is an extremely challenging target to achieve carbon neutrality before 2050, which requires all the joint efforts and participation from all the universities of Hong Kong to formulate the proactive, forward-looking and targeted strategy and platforms.
Currently, electricity generation was the largest source of carbon emissions, accounting for about 66% of the total emissions in Hong Kong, followed by transport (about 18%) and waste (about 7%, mainly from landfills). Therefore, it is an extremely challenging target to achieve carbon neutrality before 2050, which requires all the joint efforts and participation from all the universities of Hong Kong to formulate the proactive, forward-looking and targeted strategy and platforms.
