SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1991
RK SUPPORTS INT'L EFFORTS TO TACKLE ATMOSPHERIC PROBLEMS
INTERNATIONAL
A
HONG KONG IS IN STRONG SUPPORT OF EFFORTS BY THE COMMUNITY TO ACHIEVE A CONSENSUS ON GLOBAL WARMING AND TO AGREE TO TIMETARLE FOR REMEDIAL ACTION, THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, MR GRAHAM BARNES, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
DAY
1991, MR MEMBERSHIP OF ACTED
MEET CHANGE.
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OFFICIATING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE WORLD METEOROLOGICAL
BARNES SAID
ENJOYED LONG KONG HAD HONG THE WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANISATION AND
ITS COMMITMENTS TO
GLOBAL
INITIATIVES
ON
SEPARATE HAD ALWAYS CLIMATIC
PROBLEMS,
HE
ACTIONS WERE IN HAND TO TACKLE THE THREE ATMOSPHERIC NAMELY ACID RAIN, DEPLETION OF THE OZONE LAYER AND GLOBAL WARMING, SAID.
OF
"WE SHALL, FOR INSTANCE, MEET OUR COMMITMENTS TO REDUCE USE CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS (CFC'S) IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TIMETABLE AGREED BY ITS RECENT INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL AND
THE
REVISION.
"NEW
LEGISLATIVE
PROPELLANTS,
FOR
ON CONTROLS
AEROSOLS INSTANCE, ARE EXPECTED TO BE
USING
AGREED
CFC'S SHORTLY,'
AS
HE
SAID.
IN THE MEANTIME, HONG KONG IS PARTICIPATING VERY FULLY IN
RESEARCHING WORLD-WIDE PROGRAMME OF MONITORING THE CLIMATE AND POSSIBLE AREAS OF CLIMATIC CHANGE AND THEIR LIKELY RESULTS.
THE
PROBLEM
AS REGARDS
OF ACID RAIN, THE GOVERNMENT INTRODUCED A SERIES OF MEASURES TO REDUCE THE LEVEL OF THE AMOUNT SULPHUR DIOXIDE EMISSION.
THIS
INCLUDES
SULPHUR LEVELS.
THE
INTO
HAS
OF
REQUIRING
FUELS TO
BE USED
WITH
EVER-LOWER
"THE EFFECTS OF THIS ON THE AIR WITHIN OUR INDUSTRIAL AREAS, IN OBVIOUS, BUT TERMS OF VISIBILITY AND BREATHABILITY, ARE IMMEDIATELY THE LONG-TERM REGIONAL EFFECTS ON ACID RAIN ARE EQUALLY PROFOUND, BARNES SAID.
MR
BURN ONLY
ON THE OTHER HAND, POWER STATIONS ARE REQUIRED TO VERY LOW SULPHUR CONTENT COAL AND BY HIGHLY EFFICIENT AND LOW EMISSION PLANT.
FURTHERMORE, ALL ADDITIONAL POWER GENERATION UNITS EQUIPPED WITH FLUE GAS DESULPHURISERS FROM 1990 WHICH SULPHUR RMISSIONS EFFECTIVE IN REMOVING MOST OF WHAT
PRODUCED.
SHOULD BE ARE HIGHLY ARE STILL
"OUR
ON SULPHUR AND ITS EMISSION CONTROLS SUCCESSFUL SO FAR AS THEY GO.
HAVE BEEN HIGHLY
/"SULPHUR EMITTED