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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.

ΤΟ

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