FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990
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HK SUPPORTS INT'L ACTION TO SAVE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
GLOBAL
HONG KONG WILL BE REPRESENTED AT THE GENEVA CONFERENCE ON WORLD
INTERNATIONAL ACTION TO SAVE THE CLIMATE AND WILL SUPPORT ENVIRONMENT.
GRAHAM
OF
LANDS, MR THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND BARNES, SAID THIS TODAY (FRIDAY) WHEN HE OFFICIATED AT THE OPENING
EXHIBITION AT THE THE "HONG KONG IS OUR HOME"
HONG KONG CULTURAL
CENTRE.
GLOBAL HE POINTED OUT THAT PROTECTION OF THE BOUND TO BECOME PART OF OUR LIVES.
ENVIRONMENT
WAS
PROTOCOL,
WE ARE
"AS PARTIES THROUGH BRITAIN TO THE MONTREAL
OUR CONSUMPTION OF NOW FIRMLY BOUND BY RESPONSIBILITIES TO REDUCE CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS (CFC'S), INCLUDING THOSE USED IN AIR-CONDITIONERS AND REFRIGERATORS, TO 1988 LEVELS BY 1992.
"FURTHERMORE,
THE
WE CANNOT, AND SHOULD NOT, WISH TO ESCAPE RESPONSIBILITY TO PHASE OUT THE USE, IMPORT OR EXPORT OF CFC'S BY END OF THE CENTURY.
H
GREENHOUSE POTENT MR BARNES SAID CFC'S WERE EXTREMELY BUT QUANTITATIVELY NOT SO SIGNIFICANT AS CARBON DIOXIDE.
"THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE ON THE PROBABLE
AND CERTAIN, GREENHOUSE EFFECT IS LESS ACCEPTED THAN THE EVIDENCE ON CFC's.
GASES,
CONSEQUENCES OF THE CERTAINLY LESS UNIVERSALLY
NATIONS WORLD'S
DECIDE
"HOWEVER, IF AND
WHEN THE
TO MOVE THERE
TOWARDS RESTRICTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS, WHETHER OR NOT IS CAST-IRON PROOF OF GLOBAL WARMING, HONG KONG WILL CERTAINLY HAVE TO DO ITS PART."
RECENT INTERNATIONAL MEETING MR BARNES POINTED OUT THAT AT A IN STOCKHOLM CONVENED TO PREPARE FOR THE FORTHCOMING WORLD CLIMATE A FAIRLY ENCOURAGING CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER, CONSENSUS WAS REACHED ON INITIATING ACTION.
THE GENEVA CONFERENCE AND "HONG KONG WILL BE REPRESENTED AT THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT IT MUST SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL ACTION.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN MANY INTERNATIONAL
"ITS ATTITUDE TOWARDS, AND IMAGE IN, MUST BE PROGRESSIVE IF IT IS TO SURVIVE, AND,
ENVIRONMENTAL ON OUR EYES, WE WILL STAND OR FALL
SAID.
PERFORMANCE,"
HE
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