Hong Kong New GHG Global Champion - Emissions/Square Meter 500X Those Of US

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The SAR government has done little to cut down on greenhouse gases two years after the Kyoto Protocol came into effect, green group Hong Kong Environmental Protection Association said. Worse still, the association said Hong Kong could be the world champion of carbon dioxide emission as the production of the gas per square meter was 500 times that of the United States, the world's leading carbon dioxide offender overall.

"The Hong Kong government keeps proclaiming the Kyoto Protocol is applicable to Hong Kong and the greenhouse gases have been dropping to the level of 1990, yet the government has never released the relevant data," association chairman Fan Hai-tai said Friday. Under the protocol, which came into effect on February 16, 2005, signatory industrialized countries will reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases by 5.2 percent compared with the year 1990.

The goal is to lower overall emissions of six greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide calculated as an average over the five-year period 2008-12.

Fan said the Hong Kong government has never published "actual" data of carbon dioxide emission so it was impossible to determine if the protocol was being met.

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http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=38548&sid=12269160&con_type=1

[eppur_se_muova]

1. per square meter? Given the population density, I'm not surprised.

I'd like to hear the GHG per capita. Bet they fall a bit shorter there.

[Dead_Parrot]

2. The gospel according to St. Wiki...

US pop. density = 31/km², HK pop. density = 6,294.65/km² - "only" 203 times higher.

Whereas wiki gives HKs emissions as 5.5t/c, vs 20t/c for the US.

Go figure.