Greenpeace East Asia
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Key people | Pang Cheung Sze (Executive Director) |
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| Website | www |
Greenpeace East Asia is an office serving the East Asia region of the global
History
Greenpeace East Asia's first
Before offices were formally opened in
Early
Campaigns
Greenpeace East Asia runs five main campaigns:
The website also lists several achievements including:
- In 1998, following a Greenpeace campaign, Hong Kong banned the import and re-export of hazardous waste.
- In 2006, Greenpeace East Asia was the only NGO to be consulted on an early draft of a renewable energy law by China's National People's Congress.
- Two Greenpeace expeditions to China's Himalayan region in 2006 and 2007 produced evidence of dramatic glacial retreat.
- On July 6, 2010 Greenpeace China took action against Asia Pulp & Paper and French supermarket chain Auchan, which carries APP paper products such as Breeze (清风 Qingfeng) tissue paper. Activists, dressed as the Sumatran tiger buried themselves under packages of Breeze toilet paper rolls while forest campaigner Ma Lichao spoke to the media about the issues.[3] Although critical of its forestry practices in the past, Greenpeace is now working with APP to monitor its sustainability strategy including the implementation of its Forest Conservation Policy.[4]
Currently one of Greenpeace East Asia's key campaigns is to encourage China to reduce its reliance on coal as a power source and to speed up the development of the renewable energy sector instead.[5]
Apart from specific campaigns, they also work with local organisations from time to time for general advocacy, including with the Geography Society of PLK Vicwood KT Chong Sixth Form College between 2008 and 2009.
Research reports
In June 2021, it released Missing Brownfields- Hong Kong Brownfields Report 2021, a collaborative report with Liber Research Community where together, they found a total of 1,950 hectares of brownfield sites, 379 more hectares than the government was previously able to locate.[6]
See also
- Greenpeace
- Environmental issues in China
- Agriculture in China
- Geography of China
- Energy in China
- Renewable energy in China
- Coal power in China
References
- ^ a b "Achievements".
- ^ "العاب متاهات".
- ^ "A world without tigers? | Greenpeace East Asia". Archived from the original on 2017-01-10. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
- ^ "From plantation to mill: Asian paper company's 'unprecedented' sustainability commitment". Packaging World. 23 March 2014.
- ^ "China's coal crisis | Greenpeace East Asia". Archived from the original on 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
- ^ "Hong Kong NGOs find enough unidentified brownfield sites to build 95,000 homes". South China Morning Post. 2021-06-10. Retrieved 2021-06-23.