As the world’s environmental crisis deepens, leaders haggle over what, if anything, must be done Kevin Rafferty – Updated on May 31, 2008 – SCMP Fresh reports every day tell of glaciers melting, thinning polar ice triggering prospects of a new colonial scramble for the riches under the Arctic ice cap, dangers to the natural [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2008’
Beijing Pollution Top Of Scale
AFP – 31st May 2008 Pollution levels in Beijing hit the top of the scale yesterday, just 73 days before the Olympics, prompting a government warning for residents with respiratory problems to stay indoors. “Sensitive individuals should avoid going outdoors,” the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau said on its website, announcing that air quality was at [...]
The Cost of Climate Change
What We’ll Pay if Global Warming Continues Unchecked Global warming comes with a big price tag for every country around the world. The 80 percent reduction in U.S. emissions that will be needed to lead international action to stop climate change may not come cheaply, but the cost of failing to act will be much [...]
Height Restrictions In Tsim Sha Tsui
What do you think of the height restrictions in Tsim Sha Tsui? Updated on May 30, 2008 – SCMP Tsim Sha Tsui is already a crowded place packed with cars and people. The streets and alleys are small, narrow and filthy. This kind of environment is uncomfortable and it puts people under pressure. The more [...]
Green Vehicle Scheme Stalls
May Chan – Updated on May 30, 2008 – SCMP A HK$3.2 billion subsidy scheme to encourage owners of trucks and buses to replace them with eco-friendly equivalents has attracted just 9 per cent of eligible vehicles. The scheme, launched in April last year, had received 5,681 applications by the end of last month, the [...]
Dongguan To Order Polluting Plants To Close
29th May 2008 – SCMP – Denise Tsang Dongguan to order polluting plants to close, stop investments Dongguan will order 176 polluting factories to shut and 600 to migrate by the end of the year. The manufacturing hub also will stop approving new investments in highly polluting industries such as coal-fired power plants, cement factories [...]
China To Join Ban On Ultra-Thin Plastic Bags
Reuters in Beijing – Updated on May 28, 2008 The mainland is to try to kick a 3 billion-a-day plastic bag habit. But breaking the addiction, in a bid to save energy and protect the environment, will be easier said than done. On Sunday, it will join a growing list of countries, from Ireland to [...]
Investment Carries Risks
Updated on May 27, 2008 – SCMP Richard Wright, who says new height restrictions on buildings in Mid-Levels are unfair, must either be ignorant of the harmful effects of air pollution or is one of those investors who cares not one iota about how he makes money (“Building height rules are unfair and will discourage [...]
Carbon Solutions
China Daily – Updated: 2008-05-26 11:12 Founded in 1886 in Boston, Arthur D Little (ADL), the world’s first management consulting firm, is focusing on advising Chinese enterprises on maximizing the benefits from the international trade in carbon credit under the Kyoto Protocol. To do so, the company’s China operation, covering Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, [...]
EU Progress On Kyoto Targets
EU progress on Kyoto targets is mostly hot air Valdis Dombrovskis – Updated on May 26, 2008 – SCMP With each passing year, the impending crisis of global warming looms closer and closer. Time is running out for preventative action. The European Union’s “20-20-20″ mantra aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent, [...]