Eco Expo Asia 2009 – Published Feb. 12, 2009 Following its success in 2008, Eco Expo Asia, Hong Kong’s only trade fair that is dedicated to products, services and solutions for environmental protection returns with a new co-organiser, the Hong Kong Environment Bureau. Last year’s event attracted over 6,000 visitors from around the world, an [...]
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Youth Speak Truth On State Of Air Quality
Updated on Jan 19, 2009 – SCMP Sometimes it takes youth to speak the truth to those in power. Such was the case when 500 Hong Kong residents gathered on January 10 to discuss the growing epidemic of air pollution. Hong Kong’s air is toxic and getting worse. Recent studies reveal sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide [...]
City Dodging Duty On Air Targets, Group Says
Tiffany Lam and Peter So, SCMP – Updated on Dec 15, 2008 A green group has accused the government of dodging its duty to clear the city’s polluted air by adopting less stringent targets meant for use by developing countries. Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen has said the government would consider replacing the city’s 21-year-old [...]
Water Front Bike Ride For a Pollution Free Hong Kong 3
“ BURN FAT NOT OIL “ from Sheung Wan to Shau Kei Wan Supported by : HK Cycling Alliance and Sunday 7th December 2008 Time : 14:00 to 17:00 Press meeting place : 14:00 Cadogan Street Temporary Garden Kennedy Town To highlight the growing demand for bicycle paths and concrete measures to reduce air pollution, [...]
Scientist Warns Emissions Trading Scheme Too Little, Too Late
Article from: The Courier-Mail, By Greg Stolz | October 31, 2008 Flannery pessimistic about ETS Predicts catastrophe within a decade Impact will be unexpected AN emissions trading scheme will not be enough to stop a potential climatic catastrophe on the same scale as the global financial crisis within 10 years, Australian scientist Tim Flannery has [...]
Go Green To Beat Recession Blues
Timothy Chui – The Standard | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Businesses that manage to survive the global economic crisis will face even bigger challenges from climate change unless they retool their operations now, according to the world’s foremost climate- change economist. “The risk consequences of ignoring climate change will be very much bigger than ignoring [...]
Search For HK Environmental Champions
Dan Kadison, SCMP – Aug 02, 2008 The “Hong Kong Earth Champions Quest” has begun. An international group started a search yesterday to find extraordinary Hongkongers who are improving and sustaining the environment locally and globally. “Our point of view is look around you and notice what is working, and they’re the people we’d love [...]
US Experts Back Down On Climate Change Proposal
Watchdog bows to Bush pressure Associated Press in Washington – Updated on Jul 13, 2008 The administration of US President George W. Bush, dismissing the recommendations of its experts, has rejected regulating the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, saying it would cripple the US economy. In a 588-page notice, the US Environmental Protection Agency [...]
G8 Talks Offer Glimmer Of Hope For Climate Deal
Reuters in Toyako – Updated on Jul 11, 2008 If this year’s G8 summit achieved anything, it was to reinforce two truisms: the problems of the age, such as global warming, are extraordinarily complex and the Group of Eight alone cannot resolve them. Viewed in that light, it was always unrealistic to expect the G8 [...]
Two-Fingered Goodbye From Bush
Agence France-Presse, The Guardian – Updated on Jul 11, 2008 US President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit. As he prepared to fly out from the summit in Japan on Wednesday, he told his fellow leaders: “Goodbye from the [...]