GSF Data Portal

Datasets that facilitate assessment in relation to exposure to physical risks under different emissions scenarios and time horizons.

Hong Kong Observatory:

• Tropical cyclone impact data (including cyclone warning signal records, key meteorological and tidal data at different stations, casualties, and socio-economic impact data): https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/informtc/tc_impact.html
• Tropical cyclones information, statistics and publications:
  Main Page: https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/informtc/tcMain.htm
  Annual Publications: https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/publica/pubtc.htm
• Hong Kong Heat Index: https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/wxinfo/ts/index_hkhi.htm
• Climate change information and projections: https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/climate_change/climate_change.htm
• Climate data/statistics: https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/cis/climat.htm

Architectural Services Department, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region:

• General Specification for Building 2022 Edition (summarising the design of government buildings and infrastructures, including regulations, codes and guidelines in relation to extreme temperatures): https://www.archsd.gov.hk/media/publications-publicity/general-specification-for-building/GS_2022.pdf

Building Department, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region:

• Practice Note for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered Geotechnical Engineers – Energy Efficiency of Buildings Building (Energy Efficiency) Regulation: https://www.bd.gov.hk/doc/en/resources/codes-and-references/practice-notes-and-circular-letters/pnap/APP/APP067.pdf
• Practice Note for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered Geotechnical Engineers –Sustainable Building Design Guidelines: https://www.bd.gov.hk/doc/en/resources/codes-and-references/practice-notes-and-circular-letters/pnap/APP/APP152.pdf
• Practice Note for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered Geotechnical Engineers - Design and Construction Requirements for Energy Efficiency of Residential Buildings: https://www.bd.gov.hk/doc/en/resources/codes-and-references/practice-notes-and-circular-letters/pnap/APP/APP156.pdf

Civil Engineering & Development Department, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region:

• Study of Coastal Hazards under Climate Change and Extreme Weather and Formulation of Improvement Measures – Feasibility Study (providing details of coastal low-lying or windy residential areas, and government’s improvement works and management measures to alleviate coastal hazards): https://www.cedd.gov.hk/eng/our-projects/project-reports/index-id-24.html
• Dataset of reported landslide incidents in Hong Kong (including information of reported year, location, scale of incident, consequences, etc.): https://www.geomap.cedd.gov.hk/GEOOpenData/eng/Incident.aspx
  Data Dictionary: https://www.geomap.cedd.gov.hk/GEOOpenData/Data/Incident/Incidents_Dict.pdf
• Slope Information System (a Geographic Information System based inventory of the current man-made slopes): https://hkss.cedd.gov.hk/hkss/en/facts-and-figures/slope-information-system/sis/index.html
• Dataset of registered man-made slopes (including spatial polygons of the registered features in the Catalogue of Slopes and the mitigated hillside features with basic information pertinent to the features): https://www.geomap.cedd.gov.hk/GEOOpenData/eng/Feature.aspx
  Data Dictionary: https://www.geomap.cedd.gov.hk/GEOOpenData/Data/Slope/Slope_Data_Dict.pdf
• Daily rainfall by raingauge location in HK 1980 Grid: https://www.geomap.cedd.gov.hk/GEOOpenData/eng/Raingauge.aspx
• Breakdown of landslide consequences by types of slope failures: https://www.cedd.gov.hk/eng/publications/geo/geo-reports/index.html (GEO reports such as Review of Landslides and Hong Kong Rainfalls and Landslides)
• Slope safety measures for addressing the increasing landslide risk due to climate change (including strengthening slopes against extreme rainfall to prevent landslides, enhancing emergency preparedness and response to cope with severe landslide events, and improving the community resilience against landslide risk): https://hkss.cedd.gov.hk/hkss/en/slope-safety-in-hong-kong/slope-safety-system/preparedness-for-increasing-landslide-risk-due-to-/index.html
• Design Allowance with Progressive Adaptive Approach to Enhance Climate Resilience; Increase in Design Extreme Sea Level due to Climate Change Effect - Port Works Design Manual Part 1 - General Design Considerations for Marine Works (Section 2.9, Section 2.10 and Table 46): https://www.cedd.gov.hk/filemanager/eng/content_89/PWDM_2023_e-version%20June%202023_p1_1_219.pdf
  Effect on Climate Change: General Design Considerations for Marine Works - Port Works Design Manual Corrigendum No. 1/2022: https://www.cedd.gov.hk/filemanager/eng/content_1006/pwdm_cor_1_2022.pdf

Drainage Services Department, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region:

• Flooding blackspots in Hong Kong: https://www.dsd.gov.hk/EN/Flood_Prevention/Our_Flooding_Situation/Flooding_Blackspots/index.html
• Coastal low-lying/ windy residential areas in Hong Kong (including storm surge and overtopping wave spots): https://www.dsd.gov.hk/EN/Flood_Prevention/Our_Flooding_Situation/Coastal_Low_lying_or_Windy_Residential_Areas/index.html
  https://www.dsd.gov.hk/EN/Publicity_and_Publications/Publicity/DSD_Sustainability_Reports/index.html
• List of completed projects on flood prevention, sewerage and sewage treatment (including information of improvement work, project scope, location concerned, commencement and completion date etc.) (as of 2022/11/01) (excel file)
• Climate change considerations in drainage design - The Stormwater Drainage Manual (Section 6.8 ): https://www.dsd.gov.hk/EN/Files/Technical_Manual/technical_manuals/SDM_2018_5th.pdf
  Corrigendum No. 1/2022: https://www.dsd.gov.hk/EN/Files/Technical_Manual/technical_manuals/Corrigendum-No.-1_2022-of-Stormwater-Drainage-Manual.pdf
• Information of flood prevention measures, new project design and construction solutions and advanced maintenance technologies etc. performed by the Drainage Services Department:
  Sustainability Report: https://www.dsd.gov.hk/EN/Publicity_and_Publications/Publicity/DSD_Sustainability_Reports/index.html
  Annual Report: https://www.dsd.gov.hk/EN/Publicity_and_Publications/Publicity/DSD_Annual_Reports/index.html

Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region:

• Code of Practice for Energy Efficiency of Building Services Installation (BEC): https://www.emsd.gov.hk/beeo/en/pee/BEC_2021.pdf

Lands Department, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region:

• Hong Kong Map Service 2.0: Digital maps and datasets which provide coordinates of specific locations covering the whole territory of HK and can be downloaded: https://www.hkmapservice.gov.hk/OneStopSystem/home?locale=en
  (Technical details of the digital map products: https://open.hkmapservice.gov.hk/OpenData/resourcesIndex)
• Hong Kong Geodata Store: Web-based Datum Transformation Tool provides an instant conversion between various coordinate systems / datum. Transformation by batch is allowed.
  Introduction: https://www.geodetic.gov.hk/en/gi/transformation.htm
  Tool: https://www.geodetic.gov.hk/en/services/tform/tform.aspx
• Hong Kong Geographic Data: https://www.landsd.gov.hk/en/resources/mapping-information/hk-geographic-data.html#
• Open Data (Geospatial) containing various geospatial data including Digital Terrain Model (DTM) which is the topography of terrain in 5-metre raster grid with an accuracy of ±5m: https://www.landsd.gov.hk/en/spatial-data/open-data.html
• Geodetic Survey Products and Services: https://www.geodetic.gov.hk/en/geod_services.htm
• Geodetic Survey Control Station Database: https://www.geodetic.gov.hk/en/gi/geod-data.htm
• Slope Maintenance Responsibility Information System (a Geographic Information System based inventory about the maintenance responsibility of existing slopes): https://www2.slope.landsd.gov.hk/smris/map

Rating and Valuation Department, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region:

• “Names of Buildings” (A publication which is updated quarterly to include names, addresses and years of completions of buildings in Hong Kong. The building list is by no means exhaustive but every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of this publication.): https://www.rvd.gov.hk/en/publications/other_publications.html

Planning Department, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region:

• Boundaries of Tertiary Planning Units & Subunits (For town planning purpose, the whole territory of Hong Kong is divided into 292 Tertiary Planning Units (TPUs) by the Planning Department. Each of the TPU is identified by a unique three-digit number. The boundaries of each TPU grid can be translated into a list of coordinates which can be downloaded in the website.): https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-pland-pland1-boundaries-of-tpu-sb-vc

Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS):

• Physical scenarios: http://climate-impact-explorer.climateanalytics.org/

CDP:

• City-level climate hazards data: https://data.cdp.net/browse?category=Climate+Hazards&sortBy=newest

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

• NASA Earth Observations (NEO): https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php#atmosphere

World Bank:

• Climate Change Knowledge Portal: https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/download-data

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD):

• Country environment data: https://data.oecd.org/environment.htm

International Monetary Fund (IMF):

• Climate Change Indicators Dashboard: https://climatedata.imf.org/

Datasets that facilitate assessment in relation to exposure to transition risks under different emissions scenarios and time horizons.

Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS):

• Transition scenarios: https://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at/ngfs/#/workspaces

International Energy Agency (IEA):

• https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-products?filter=free

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD):

• Energy data: https://data.oecd.org/energy.htm

EXIOBASE (Global Input-output Data):

• Multi-regional environmentally extended supply-use and input-output tables - EXIOBASE3 Monetary version: https://www.exiobase.eu/index.php/data-download/exiobase3mon
• Multi-regional environmentally extended supply-use and input-output tables - EXIOBASE3 Hybrid version: https://www.exiobase.eu/index.php/data-download/exiobase3hyb

International Monetary Fund (IMF):

• Climate Change Indicators Dashboard: https://climatedata.imf.org/

US Energy Information Administration:

• Energy analysis and projections data: https://www.eia.gov/analysis/

Scenarios models and projections that facilitate climate risk analysis and stress testing to assess the resilience of an entity's businesses, strategy and financial planning against different climate scenarios; or for research and policy purposes.

Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS):

• Scenarios Portal: https://www.ngfs.net/ngfs-scenarios-portal/data-resources/

Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment (PACTA):

• Transition scenarios: https://compass.transitionmonitor.org/

International Energy Agency (IEA):

• Global Net Zero by 2050 scenario projections data: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-product/net-zero-by-2050-scenario
• Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP) scenario and sectoral data: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-product/energy-technology-perspectives-2017-2

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):

• IPCC Working Group 1 Interactive Atlas: https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/

World Bank:

• Climate Change Knowledge Portal: https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/