Concerns of the stakeholders

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Concerns of the stakeholders

• Government
• Air Polluters
• NGOs
• Social Stakeholders
• Economic

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Stakeholder Concerns

• NGOs

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• Highly connected and influenced by Social
  stakeholders
• How effectively influence the government to
  introduce and execute Air Pollution standards ?
• How effectively influence Air Polluters to
  convince them, that expenditures made on Air
  Pollution prevention are needed ?
• How expand the peoples know-how about Air
  Pollution influence on their lives ?

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Stakeholder Concerns

• Government

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• Living in a healthy, human friendly environment
• Sai Kung tourism incomes have and influence on
  budget money pollution dependant
• Elections
• Medical expenses for healing sick
• Expenses for air pollution prevention
• Is there any threat, that after full
  incorporation to China, Hong Kong will have to
  accept much lower Chinese standards ?

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Stakeholder Concers

• Air Polluters

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• Without dividing the Air Polluters into local and
  abroad, their concerns are
• Are the expenditures made on improving the air
  pollution prevention having great influence on
  lowering the incomes ?
• Is the awareness of Air Polluters developed ?

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Stakeholder Concerns

• Economic Stakeholders

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• Air Pollution causes high expenditures on health
  care
• Air Pollution causes high expenditures on
  environmental protection
• It cheaper to prevent than heal
• Air Pollution affect the amount of tourists that
  come to Sai Kung

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Stakeholder Concerns

• Social

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• Very high impacts on human health (premature
  deaths, increased hospital admissions)
• Lost of income lost working days, medical
  expenditures
• If the Air Pollution is high, tourist will resist
  coming to Sui Kung, and they are one of the most
  income generating group
• Questionnaire

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Questionnaire

• Sai Kung 15.11.2006

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• I have conducted a small survey, to get the idea
  on
• what is the general awareness on Air Pollution in
  Sai Kung
• Any desires to make a change
• General attitude

From the questions asked, the results are as
follow
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Conclusions

• Many people see Air Pollution as a problem in
  Hong Kong , though half of the respondents have
  no idea about Sai Kung
• The knowledge of results of being exposed to
  severe Air Pollution is almost none (3/26)
• People in general save the energy in houses, but
  rather because of the money saved, not pollution
  created
• Not many of my respondents have a car (7) and
  majority (5) of them says that the tend to drive
  responsible (in means of fuel usage)
• People say that they prefer to use big
  double-decker busses than the PLTs (because of
  the price mainly)

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• 22 of my respondents said, that they like to take
  a walk/bike instead of using mechanized transport
  
• Unfortunately, people rather dont care about
  using recyclable products
• Knowledge about governmental and NGOs activities
  on air pollution field is almost none Gov
  (3/29) NGOs (2/29)
• But what is important, about 2/3 of the
  respondents said that they do care about
  environmental program during elections
• Last, 10 of the respondents said, that dealing
  with AP is really important for them and 9 that
  they dont know that means that we can change
  their minds.

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Suggestions on concerns

• Basically, principles are easy
• Less energy we burn, the less we pollute
• The more efficiently the energy is produced, the
  less we pollute
• The cleaner the fuel we use, the less we pollute

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Solutions - What to do ?
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Replace old vehicles

• Hong Kong road density is one of the highest in
  the world with 265 vehicles per kilometer.
• Older vehicles pollute way more then new ones.
  Even when using the ultra-low sulphur diesel
  (ULSD) is used.
• There are few steps than should be taken
• Adding bio-diesel fuel to one sold in HK. There
  are two gains from it
• it burns much cleaner and
• it is the best way to recycle used frying oil
• Convert the local bus from old diesels to Euro IV
  standards
• Mandatory conversion of minibuses to LPG

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Sai Kung needs an Air Pollution measuring station

In Sai Kung
This is the current map of air pollution
measuring stations in Hong Kong. Sai Kung got
none. Why not building one in SK ?
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Make rail the priority

• Transport in Hong Kong is supposed to be
  concentrated on rails, but currently it is
  road-led. Building new MTR lines in place of
  highways would definitely decrease the level of
  pollution.

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Energy Efficiency

• We all know, that whenever we enter a bus,
  restaurant or other indoor place temperatures are
  so low that we have to wear a jacket. Everyone
  complains about it why we cant change it ?

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• Promote the Air Pollution knowledge, make people
  aware of danger it carries
• Promote recyclable products
• Promote governmental and NGO actions on the field
  people care about environment during elections
  ! Make the government know of it.

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For all of us

• save the energy
• dont waste
• be considerate on road
• be a part of sustainable community

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Be considerate on road
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• If you have to drive, try to combine it with
  other means of transportation (walk, ride a
  bicycle)
• Make maximum use of public light transport
• Switch off engine while waiting (6 seconds of
  idle time fuel needed to start engine again)
• While using a car, try to accelerate gradually
• Use cruise control on the highway
• Obey speed limit
• Keep your car tuned up
• Try to combine all places you want to go today
  into one trip
• When buying a car, look for the most efficient in
  terms of fuel usage and pollution dealt try
  using this web site to help you
• http//www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/

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Save the energy
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Dont waste
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• Choose recycled products pr products with
  recyclable packing
• Print and photocopy both sides

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• turn off lights, air conditioning when not
  required (you save both energy, money and power
  from plants)
• Use fan instead of AC
• use thermostat to turn off A-C
• use energy saving equipment both in restaurants
  and home (change incandescent lights with
  fluorescent lighting)
• Dry clothes on a clothesline
• Select products that are water based (e.g.
  paints)
• Do not use aerosols (they contain high amounts of
  VOC)

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Be a part of sustainable community
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• Assist government and NGOs by supporting their
  activities for clean air
• Obey the regulations
• Think for future mind everything what you are
  doing
• Awareness people need to know what to do to
  support their local environment
• People need to know where to go if they want to
  take an active membership in environmental
  protection

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Conclusions