Oasis Hong Kong Airlines Invites its International Passengers to Fly Climate Neutral™ – PRWeb Oasis Hong Kong Airlines has partnered with the climate solutions company Climate Friendly™, to offer its passengers the opportunity to neutralise the greenhouse gas emissions from their flights through investment in renewable energy in China. Hong Kong (PRWEB) January 28, 2008 [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2008’
Air Quality Proposals To Be Issued
Air Quality Proposals To Be Issued – Environment News The Council for Sustainable Development will next month advise the Government on addressing air quality, council chairman Dr Edgar Cheng says. After a council meeting today Dr Cheng said the recommendations will cover action to be taken on high air-pollution days, road pricing and other air-quality [...]
Data Shows Pollution Is Getting Worse
Updated on Jan 20, 2008 – SCMP The government’s much-heralded Action Blue Sky campaign is designed to reduce air pollution. Is it working? A simple way to measure the extent of air pollution is to look at how often the air pollution index (API) is high or very high. This level is significant because it [...]
Blue Skies Warrior
As an industrialist, Dominic Yin learned all he needed for his new calling – environmental evangelist Barclay Crawford – Updated on Jan 20, 2008 – SCMP Dominic Yin has taken nearly a lifetime to find his true calling. The former industrialist and entrepreneur, 66, now describes himself as an environmental evangelist. He handed over the [...]
Guangdong To Boost Green Efforts
By Liang Qiwen (China Daily) Updated: 2008-01-19 10:34 Guangdong will attach more importance to protecting the environment and saving energy during its industrial development, deputies to the ongoing provincial people’s congress said on Friday. “Guangdong saw its GDP soar 14.5 percent last year. However, we are under growing pressure because we must control per unit [...]
Hong Kong Planning Carbon Exchange
Hong Kong expected to tap into supply of Chinese carbon credits Joanne McCulloch, BusinessGreen, 18 Jan 2008 Hong Kong is set to become the latest financial centre to join the global carbon market, announcing plans to set up a carbon trading exchange by the year end. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange has said a feasibility [...]
Worsening Levels Of Air Pollution Leaves Green Groups Breathless
Environmental management Government’s ‘obvious reluctance’ to tackle worsening levels of air pollution leaves green groups breathless Jacqueline Tsang – Updated on Jan 18, 2008 – SCMP The government has spent HK$23billion on waste management and environmental programmes since 1997, but visibility in urban areas has dropped 33 per cent in the past 10 years and [...]
South China Catching Up With Beijing in Air Pollution
Environmental Health – Posted online: Friday, January 18, 2008 at 12:19:40 PM South China too Catching Up With Beijing in Air Pollution It is not as if Beijing alone is wringing its hands in helplessness over the deteriorating air quality. The situation doesn’t seem to be any better in the Guangdong Province, Hong Kong. It [...]
Ultrafine Particles In Air Pollution May Cause Heart Disease
Study shows how ultrafine particles in air pollution may cause heart disease By Rachel Champeau | 1/17/2008 1:00:00 PM UCLA News Patients prone to heart disease may one day be told by physicians to avoid not only fatty foods and smoking but air pollution too. A new academic study led by UCLA researchers has revealed [...]
Hong Kong Smog Third Worst Since 1968
Cheung Chi-fai – SCMP – Jan 17, 2008 Guangdong was plagued last year by the worst smog in 59 years, with 27 major cities and counties reporting record numbers of smoggy days, according to the province’s meteorological bureau. A bureau report reviewing the atmospheric state of Guangdong last year said the average number of smoggy [...]