Symposium on Energy, Environment in New Era Held in HKOver 300 representatives from various business sectors in Hong Kong attended a symposium Friday on "Energy and Environment in the New Era" to explore new trends on energy management, solar energy as a renewable source, and other current environmental issues.Speaking at the symposium, Joseph KC Chan, chairman of the Institute of Energy (Hong Kong Branch) said, "Hong Kong and other advanced economies are faced with environmental problems arising from the use of energy. In addition, Hong Kong also has the environmental obligation to support global efforts to resolve the world's climate change problem." "To this end, we need to find new means to reduce our own energy consumption rates but at the same time lessen the associated environmental damage," he added. According to Roger SH Lai, director of the Electrical and Mechanical Services of the HKSAR Government, Hong Kong's total end use energy consumption in the next decade will probably grow at an annual average rate of 2.4 percent. Lai said, "we are facing tremendous challenges to reduce the amount of energy needed but still sustaining the economic activity, and at the same time to reduce the pollutants emitted in producing each unit of energy." |
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