First published: February 25, 2010 Source: The Telegraph The project, in partnership with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), will gather the original temperature records from thousands of weather stations around the world. The readings will be double-checked and new information that has become available, such as improved understanding of atmospheric change, will be added. The [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2010’
2010 budget speech highlights: Promoting Green Economy
Promoting Green Economy 89. In my last Budget, I proposed to promote a “green economy” and introduced a series of measures, including Hong Kong-Guangdong co-operation in environmental protection, the use of electric vehicles and promotion of green buildings. In his Policy Address, the Chief Executive further announced the development of environmental industries as one of [...]
Cutting bus routes could take years, transport officials admit
SCMP, Anita Lam 23rd Feb, 2010 Transport officials admit cutting bus routes will be difficult to realise because public consultation could take years. But the government is pressing bus firms to offer more joint concessions on fares for interchanges. Commissioner of Transport Joseph Lai Yee-tak said public consultation over the necessity of a bus route [...]
Clear The Air agrees with and endorses the conclusions and recommendations in Civic Exchange’s: “Green Harbours:
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Clean burning bio-diesel source under our noses
SCMP, Eric Ng, 2010-2-20 Every day hundreds of tonnes of waste cooking oil, grease and animal fat are discarded by Hong Kong’s 20,000-plus restaurants. The real waste is that it could be used as clean fuel in the city’s vehicles. Some of the oil and fat is illegally smuggled to the mainland to be recycled [...]
More Reflective Roofs and Pavements Could Help Offset Climate Emissions
http://www.igsd.org/ Washington, DC, February 19, 2010 Increasing the reflectivity or “albedo” of roofs and pavements in urban areas could offset greenhouse gas emissions by a significant amount, according to a paper published last month in Environmental Research Letters. The research performed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shows [...]
Time for tougher action on polluting trucks
LEADER 17 Feb, 2010 Authorities should be tackling roadside air pollution as a matter of urgency. They claim that this is the case: the Environmental Bureau and Environmental Protection Department said in their last annual progress report that high public expectations meant this was a top priority. An ineffective scheme to get old, polluting vehicles [...]
Cash incentives for getting polluting vehicles off the roads branded a failure
SCMP 16th Feb, 2010 A subsidy aimed at encouraging owners of old, polluting diesel trucks and vans to replace them early is failing because most of the people taking the grant would be buying a new vehicle anyway as theirs are worn out, owners and academics say. They say the low take-up rate of the [...]
Green scheme for old trucks stalls
SCMP, Austin Chiu Feb 16, 2010 A subsidy aimed at encouraging owners of old, polluting diesel trucks and vans to replace them early is failing because most of the people taking the grant would be buying a new vehicle anyway as theirs are worn out, owners and academics say. They say the low take-up rate [...]
Green scheme for old trucks stalls
SCMP, Austin Chiu 16th Feb, 2010 Cash incentives for getting polluting vehicles off the roads branded a failure A subsidy aimed at encouraging owners of old, polluting diesel trucks and vans to replace them early is failing because most of the people taking the grant would be buying a new vehicle anyway as theirs are [...]