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Greens push Tsang to get serious on global warming
(STANDARD) 10月 03日 星期三 05:30AM
Green activists tried to push climate change on to the chief executive's agenda yesterday by dressing up as trees and attempting to enter Government House.

Eight Greenpeace activists tried to meet Donald Tsang Yam-kuen to demand a comprehensive strategy to fight global warming in his upcoming policy address.

After Tsang's office failed to receive the protesters, they tied a letter in front of a tree at Government House and left peacefully. The action was aimed at criticizing Tsang's pledge at the recent Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Australia to plant 11 million trees to combat global warming.

Greenpeace said this lags far behind the Beijing government's policy pace and tarnishes Hong Kong's international image.

"Mr Tsang can only cite planting trees as an example against climate change in an international conference. This provides clear evidence that his effort against global warming is too little," Greenpeace's climate and energy campaigner Frances Yeung said.

Greenpeace estimates that if planting trees is the only way to tackle global warming, Hong Kong will have to plant two billion trees on an area equivalent to a double of its size.

Yeung urged the government to establish broad strategies to cope with global warming, including developing renewable energy, saving energy, as well as boosting energy efficiency. The policy address should include Greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets; an overall Hong Kong energy saving target; and an amendment to the Air Pollution Control Ordinance.

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