Dr. Hedley from Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health University of Hong Kong had just hosting a talk about the Early childhood development and air pollution on 26th November. If you are interested in the content, please download the pdf file attached. hk-ecdrf-2009
Posts from ‘November, 2009’
Call to subsidise firms to buy green buses
SCMP, Ng Kang-chung Nov 28, 2009 Bus companies should be subsidised to buy vehicles that are better for the environment, according to a research paper released yesterday by private think tank Civic Exchange. The 26-page paper, “Paying for a Cleaner Bus Fleet”, also calls for environmental performance to be introduced as one of the criteria [...]
Greener fuel standards proposed for vehicles
SCMP ,Martin Wong Nov 18, 2009 The government has proposed making vehicles more environmentally friendly by requiring fuel supplied in the city to meet greener standards. Government proposals in a Legislative Council paper that lawmakers will discuss on Monday include a move to the Euro V emission standard, introduced in the European Union for heavy [...]
Tourism legislator should take fight for clean air to the streets
When Paul Tse Wai-chun, the Legislative Council representative for tourism, was asked about the effect of recent record street-level pollution on tourism, he responded that the government was doing its best to remedy the situation. Really? When we can no longer take our tourists to Mong Kok to visit the street markets, because the pollution [...]