South China Morning Post – 24 Sept 2011 Plunging confidence in the US and Europe eats into orders, with just 13 weeks to go to Christmas A chill wind is sweeping across the factory supply chain in front of a looming global recession. From manufacturers in the Pearl River Delta, to freight forwarders and package [...]
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Economic Crisis Gives Us A Chance To Become Environmentally Friendly
SCMP – Updated on Feb 01, 2009 Air pollution is a major concern in Hong Kong. I think the present financial crisis is the best time to begin changing our energy policies in an effort to lower our air pollution levels. We must do this, because as air quality deteriorates, our health will suffer. With [...]
Workable Solution: China Wants Better, Cleaner Industry For Tomorrow, But Needs Jobs And Stability Today
Joseph Cheng, SCMP – Updated on Jan 08, 2009 The Guangdong leadership has been promoting industrial upgrading in the Pearl River Delta for many years, and this is perceived as the inevitable path of economic development. The processing factories in the delta are mainly labour-intensive manufacturing; their products are low value-added with minimum technological content. [...]
Perfect Partnership To Tackle Climate Change
Trevor Houser, SCMP – Updated on Dec 23, 2008 The current economic crisis cast a pall over climate change talks held this month in Poland. With American home values and retirement savings falling, and Chinese unemployment figures rising, observers worry that neither America nor China – the world’s two largest polluters – will have much [...]
Vietnam Under Threat As Seas Rise
David Adam, SCMP – Updated on Dec 14, 2008 As Global Warming Raises Ocean Levels, Rich Nations Are Being Urged to Bail out the Vulnerable Which country will be most affected by the steady rise of the seas? Which country could see more than a tenth of its population displaced, a tenth of its economic [...]
California Passes Rules for Cleaner Diesel Trucks
By Peter Henderson, Reuters – 13 December 2008 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California on Friday became the first state in the country to force big diesel trucks to clean up their exhaust, despite warnings from truckers the new rules will force them out of business. About a million vehicles, from big rigs to school buses, [...]
EU Agrees to Cut Greenhouse Gases 20pc by 2020
Agence France-Presse in Brussels, SCMP – Updated on Dec 13, 2008 EU leaders reached agreement on an ambitious package to slash greenhouse-gas emissions yesterday, urging US president-elect Barack Obama to follow their lead in the fight against global warming. But environmentalists promptly panned the agreement, saying too many concessions had been made to industry and [...]
An Interview of Christian Masset on Topic of Air Pollution in Hong Kong
Christian Masset, Chairman of CTA, Bloomberg - 12 Dec 2008 Chairman of CTA, Christian Masset, was interviewed on 12 Dec 08 and broadcast in Bloomberg. He talked about the actions Government should take to clear the air in Hong Kong, even in the situation of recent economic crisis. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=53691208472&oid=18005249752
California Moves on Global Warming, Warned on Cost
Reuters in San Francisco, SCMP – Updated on Dec 12, 2008 California, the leading US state on climate change, set detailed goals on Thursday (Friday, HK time) to cut greenhouse gases and address global warming but faced criticism the plan’s economic assumptions were hopelessly optimistic. Home to the world’s eighth largest economy, California confirmed its [...]
China “Cancer Village” Pays Ultimate Price For Growth
Reuters By Emma Graham-Harrison and Vivi Lin – Thursday, December 11, 2008 Once an isolated haven, the Chinese village of Liukuaizhuang is now a tainted hell, surrounded by scores of low-tech factories that are poisoning its water and air, and the health of many villagers. One in fifty people there and in a neighbouring hamlet [...]