Press releases
May 06, 2008
Two Greenpeace activists dressed up in eyeball costume today bring 7,000 signatures collected earlier to the Environment Bureau and covered the EB door with “surveillance eyes”. The act is to present public voices to urge the Bureau to cap carbon dioxide from power plants in the recent Air Pollution Control Ordinance (APCO) amendment and as a move against climate change.
April 29, 2008
Greenpeace launches the latest “Shoppers’ Guide to Avoiding GE Food 2008”. Amongst nearly 600 common food brands in the market, only around 40% pledged not to use GE ingredients. In the categories of chips and biscuits, even a lower record of 20% has committed. The government’s delaying policy to implementing a mandatory labelling system is causing Hong Kong citizens to consume GE food unwittingly.
April 06, 2008
While the Hong Kong Observatory warns that winter will disappear in two decades, the government shows no sign to cap carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in its latest amendment to the Air Pollution Control Ordinance (APCO). Yet a Greenpeace survey shows that 70% of interviewees believe it is urgent for the authority to tackle climate change, while more than 80% support regulation to carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
March 14, 2008
Natural refrigerant in Greenfreeze protects ozone layer and climate Hamburg, 14 March. – Greenfreeze, the first refrigerator in the world without harmful CFC and HFC chemicals, is 15 years old. The first appliance rolled off the production line at the DKK Scharfenstein company in Niederschmiedeberg in Saxony on 15 March 1993. Since then 300 million refrigerators have been manufactured applying the Greenfreeze criteria worldwide. Greenpeace used the technology in intensifying its campaign then against CFC chemicals, which destroy the Earth's ozone layer. Greenpeace in addition wanted to stop the spread of HFCs which, despite their devastating effect on the climate, chemical corporations introduced as a substitute refrigerant.
March 11, 2008
Greenpeace welcomes the proposal by China’s State Council today to promote the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) to cabinet ministerial level, and continues to call for more reforms to empower the country’s citizens to be more environmentally active and help to monitor polluters.
February 28, 2008
Hong Kong，28th Feb 2008 – Greenpeace releases today its latest survey on “Public Attitude towards GE Foods” at the Centre for Food Safety, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department. 96% polls consider it is their rights to know whether the food they consume contains GE ingredients, whereas 97% consider it the government’s immediate liability to set up a mandatory labelling system. The survey result is handed to Dr. Philip Ho, Consultant of the Centre’s Risk Assessment and Communication Division. Greenpeace urges the government to take immediate actions against existing loopholes of GE food monitoring, and return to consumers their rights to choose by implementing a mandatory labelling system as soon as possible. Dr. Philip Ho responded they will make clear on the review on the voluntary labelling system in the Panel on Food Safety & Environmental Hygiene in June.
February 17, 2008
Greenpeace today exposed the latest GE food testing results. It reveals GE ingredients are unanimously found in all 7 tofu samples from local supermarkets (See Table 1). Greenpeace investigated over 800 pre-packaged food items and found none of them labelled as recommended by the HKSAR Government’s Voluntary Labelling System for GE Foods. Implemented since 2006, the voluntary labelling system proves to be a complete failure as manufacturers and distributors are not obligated to provide the GE information. Greenpeace urges the HKSAR government to expeditiously release the review on the voluntary labelling system for GE foods, and to guarantee food safety and safeguard the consumer rights by establishing a well defined and restrictive mandatory labelling system for GE foods.
December 06, 2007
Four Greenpeace climbers captivated today the largest local perpetrator of climate change, CLP Castle Peak Power Plant, while the UN Climate Conference in Bali is thrashing out solutions to global warming. Greenpeace is dissatisfied with the government shirking its responsibility to restrain greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The climbers scaled the fly ash silos and dropped a massive banner saying 'Climate Change Starts Here', urging the government to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants as a move to tackle climate change.
November 27, 2007
Green group representatives from Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Greeners Action, Green Sense, WWF Hong Kong and Clear the Air, along with “Carbon Dioxide Foundlings” protest to the Environment Bureau today over the government’s negligence to cap greenhouse gas emissions from power plants when formulating the new Scheme of Control Agreement (SOC), further worsening global warming.
November 20, 2007
Greenpeace warned that unauthorized genetically engineered (GE) rice from the U.S. was found for the first time on supermarket shelves in Beijing. The environmental group urges the U.S. government to strengthen export control of food products containing GE ingredients and cautions Chinese consumers against imported rice from the U.S.
