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EMSD Summit, Imaginovate 2016

Lifestyle of Health & Sustainability

Professor Vivian Taam Wong

Chairman, Friends of the Earth (HK)
17 November 2016
 Our Vision
A Healthy and Sustainable environment for all

LOHAS = Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability

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 Our Mission
Focuses on protecting our local and regional environment
Offers equitable solutions to help create environmentally
sustainable public policies, business practices and
community lifestyles

Engages government, business and community to act

responsibly

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 Climate Movement

2009 2011
1992 Durban
Copenhagen
UNFCCC Accord Platform

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 2015

1991 - 1994 1995 - 2005 2005 - 2011 2011 - 2015
COP21

1997
Kyoto 2010
Protocol Cancún
Agreement
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 What Can We Do?

International COP21 | Paris Agreement 2015

China
National determined contribution
Hong Kong
Sub-national contribution

Industries

Individual Civic Society

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Green House Gas Emission
Rising Global Emissions

IPCC 2014 7
 Sector-wise Energy Use

Energy Supply: 14.4 GtCO2/year

Industry Production: 13 GtCO2/year
Agriculture: 10-12 GtCO2/year
Buildings: 8.8 GtCO2/year
Transport: 6.7 GtCO2/year

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Sector-wise GHG Emissions

IPCC

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IPCC 2014
Country-wise Targets
60-65% below 2005 carbon intensity by 2030
Peak carbon emissions by 2030
Supply 20% of energy with non-fossil fuels by 2030
Increase forest stock to 4.5 billion m3 by 2030

26-28% below 2005 GHG emissions by 2025

40% below 1990 GHG emissions by 2030

30% below 2005 GHG emissions by 2030

26-28% below 2005 GHG emissions by 2030

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Hong Kong’s Target

Reduce Carbon Intensity

50-60% of 2005 level
by 2020

Reduce Energy Intensity

40% from 2005 level

by 2025
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 Absolute vs. Intensity
Absolute = Actual emission of CO2 or CO2-eq
Intensity = Measures against unit of GDP

= !?
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 Renewable Energy Targets

Hong Kong • No targets, only guidelines

New York • 30% renewable energy by 2030

Vancouver • 100% renewable energy by 2050

China • 15% non-fossil fuels by 2020

European Union • 27% renewable energy by 2030

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 Smart City Wien
Moves Vienna towards post-carbon future …
With a target of 2050 and
a baseline year of 1990,
the city of Vienna has Energy
Mobility
dedicated to achieving an Infrastructure
… Buildings

80% reduction of CO2

and
50% of energy from
renewable sources

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 Waste Reduction Target
• Reduce 40% of 2011 per-capita
Hong Kong MSW by 2022

• Reduce 70% of 1998 MSW by

Taiwan 2020

Singapore • Recycle 70% of waste by 2030

• Divert 75% of waste from

New York landfills by 2030

• Reduce 50% of 2008 waste going

Vancouver into landfill or incineration
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 GHG Reduction Opportunities
零碳零廢

食 Trees Building 住
Agriculture Waste
Food Freight
Apparel Circular
Economy
衣 Industry Transport 行

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LOHAS
 LOHAS
Lifestyle
of
Health
and
Sustainability

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 COOL Ambassadors 樂活十宜
“For individuals to pledge LOHAS”

1. Refuse．Reduce源頭減廢
2. Recycle．Reuse循環再用
3. Redesign．Repair升級再造
4. Order Less．Waste Less適食‧惜食
5. Less Meat．More Green多菜少肉
6. Power Smart善用能源
7. Drive Less．More Mass Transit綠色交通
8. Hike．Bike行路踩單車
9. Urban Farming都市農業
10. Fair Trade本土‧ 公平貿易 19
 Trees．COOLiving –
Climate Change Mitigation
To raise public support for planting and water source conservation in both Mainland and HK.

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 World Water Day
22 March 2015
Trees planting helps produce food, supply air, clean water,
generate jobs and remember loved ones.

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Dongjiang River Source Tree Planting
– Other Initiatives

1. Dongjiang Forum
2. The Sons of Dongjiang Volunteer
Programme
3. Water Challenge
4. Environmental Education Centre
in Xunwu County
5. Eco-toilet and Biogas Pond
6. Environmental Education Project

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Agriculture, Trees
 Health Benefits of Trees
1. Filter airborne pollutants. The
rate of asthma fell by 25% for
every extra 340 trees per square
kilometer
2. Promote exercise, decrease BMI
and diabetes
3. Decreases in tension, confusion,
anger and depression
4. Recover from stress and lower
blood pressure
5. Improve study performance
6. Decrease sick leave
7. Lowering heat 24
Planted 80,000 trees
Absorbs 500 tonnes of CO2 annually

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 Review of Tree Planting
Challenge (2005 – 2014)
• Over articipants joined the Challenge
since 2005
(2005) (2006) (2007)
(2008) (2009)

(2010) (2011)
(2012) (2013)
(2014)
More than 9,000 participants in 10 years

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 What is Urban Forestry?
Urban forestry provides the strategic framework for sustainable
long-term management of our urban vegetation in a holistic manner.
• It utilises the asset life-cycles of trees to regulate, regenerate and
replenish urban tree stock;
• Maximise vegetation diversity;
• Improve ecological health within our urban forestry assets;
• Foster a deeper understanding on the life-cycle of urban trees and
vegetation toward a more sustainable and resilient future.

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 What is Place Ecology?
We Make Our Own Place
Through the creation and ongoing collaboration across the public,
private and community sectors, we collectively inspire and imagine
public spaces as the heart of our communities.
“Ecology”
Through a holistic integration of social, technical, environmental,
economic and design values, how we connect and identify
ourselves within our places drive the reinvention and design
innovation from feasibility to end-use implementation of our cities.

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 Plantation Enrichment Project (PEP) –
Change in Afforestation Strategy
PAST : From quick establishment of vegetation using a few exotic tree types

FUTURE: To increase bio-diversity & ecological value with native tree species

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PEP In Action – From 2009

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Agriculture, Husbandry
Less Meat．More Green
多菜．少肉

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Less Meat．More Green
多菜．少肉
Interesting Facts :
• China consumes about 50% of
the world’s pig
• Breeding density in China :
94 pig / 100 acres
• Breeding density in US :
20 pigs /100 acres
• 1.29 billion metric tons of waste
is produced by the Chinese pork
industry each year

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 Less Meat．More Green
多菜．少肉
Lowers
20% heart
disease risk

Water saving

Reduce GHGs

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Live 8 years longer
Less Meat．More Green
多菜．少肉

1 October 2015

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Agriculture, Waste
 Order Less．Waste Less
「適食‧惜食」
We’re overweight
• Obesity has nearly doubled since 1980, with a staggering 30 per cent of us now
overweight or obese.
We’re starving
• Malnutrition and hunger haunt one in nine of us. It’s the reason nearly half of all
children under five die prematurely.
We’re wasteful
• We waste enough food every year to feed the world’s hungry four times over. Rich
countries’ food waste is approximately equivalent to all food produced in Africa.
We’re polluting ourselves
• One third of the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change are from
agriculture production. The livestock industry alone accounts for almost 15 per
cent of all human-caused emissions.

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 Order Less．Waste Less
「適食‧惜食」
1 in 8 people go to bed hungry each night ….

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 Order Less．Waste Less
「適食‧惜食」
80% of the world’s hungry are directly involved in food production

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 Order Less．Waste Less
「適食‧惜食」
In Hong Kong ...

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Order Less．Waste Less
「適食‧惜食」

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Industry Waste, Apparel
Refuse．Reduce
源頭減廢
This is approximately how much
each of us throw away everyday!

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 Refuse．Reduce
源頭減廢
Waste. NO Way @ Trees． COOLiving
BYOB3 @ Trees．COOLiving
R10 @ Trees．COOLiving
R10 = refuse, reduce, reuse, redesign, repair, rehome, recycle,
resources, restore, redistribute after reuse

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 Recycling ． Reuse
循環再用

In 2010, 99% wastes (360Mn tones)

were exported.

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Redesign．Repair
升級再造

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 Sustainable Fashion
• Fashion is a complicated business involving long and varied
supply chains of production, raw material, textile
manufacture, clothing construction, shipping, retail, use and
ultimately disposal of the garment. It is the second largest
polluter and the carbon footprint is tremendous.

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Building
 New York City’s Roadmap
80 x 50
#ONENYC

Strong, Sustainable, Resilient and Equitable City

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 Clean, Resilient & Affordable
Energy System
#ONENYC

New York’s Clean Energy Standard ensures New York’s Clean Energy Fund is mobilizing
50% of New York's electricity will private capital, jump starting innovation, and
come from renewable sources by 2030. helping eliminate market barriers to make
clean energy scalable and affordable
for all New Yorkers.

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Power Smart
善用能源

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 Power Smart
善用能源
Government initiatives …

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Power Smart
善用能源

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Transport
 Drive Less．More Mass Transit
綠色交通
Hedley Environmental Index
Uses data on air pollutants and public health statistics to
estimate the daily burden of doctor visits, hospital admissions
and deaths, and the associated monetary value on the Hong
Kong community.

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 Drive Less．More Mass Transit
綠色交通
Green Transportation Hierarchy
most green
Walk • Hong Kong’s roads are
most heavily used with
Cycle
300 vehicles/km of road
Public Transport • Nitrogen Oxides is the
major pollutant
Taxi • Long-term NO2 exposure
may decrease lung
Car Share function and increase
Private Car respiratory symptoms
least green

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Drive Less．More Mass Transit
綠色交通
Benefits of Green Transport

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 Drive Less．More Mass Transit
綠色交通
2012 Data from CAN

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Drive Less．More Mass Transit
綠色交通

PM 2.5 Standard
AQI = 35
WHO = 10

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 Hike．Bike
行路．踩單車
Lose 13 Lbs!!!
Benefits of walking & cycling ..
1. No carbon footprint
2. Weight loss
3. Improve cardio-respiratory functions
4. Strengthen muscles & bones
5. Improve mood & sleep
6. Slow mental decline

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 Hike．Bike
行路踩單車
Cycling can boost economy …

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Urban Farming
 Urban Farming
都市農業
What is Urban Farming? Interesting Facts :
• The practice of cultivating,  Vegetables have a short
processing, and distributing production cycle; some can
food in or around a village, be harvested within 60 days
town, or city of planting
 An area of just one square
metre can provide 20 kg of
food a year

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 Urban Farming
都市農業
Importance of urban
farming :
1. Food security
2. Food safety
3. Ecological
sustainability
年份 農地總計（公頃） 荒置農地（公頃） 荒置率（%）

1960 14,067 746 5 4. Carbon footprint

1970 13,361 2,285 17

1980

1990
9,970

8,420
4,237

4,319
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5. Holistic sustenance for
2000 6,960 4,250 61 city dwellers
2013 4,523 3,794 84

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 Urban Farming - Lufa Farms
都市農業
• Founded in 2010, it is the world’s first
commercial rooftop greenhouse
• Located right on the island of Montreal
in Ahuntsic-Cartierville
• 31,000 square foot
• Produces 40 varieties of vegetables, all
grown sustainably without synthetic
pesticides and by using
recycling rainwater and optimizing
energy use
• Feeds 3,000 people year-round

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 Buy Local‧ Fair Trade
本土. 公平貿易
Why buy Local? What are Food Miles ?
1. Reduce environmental impact => The distance food travels from
2. Better food safety where it is grown to where it is
3. Strengthen local economy => ultimately purchased or consumed
Local food = Local $ by the end user.
4. Support community groups *The smaller the better.*
5. Create jobs

What is Fair Trade?

1. Child Labor
2. Gender Equality
3. Product Pricing
4. Working Environment
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 Our Vision
A Healthy and Sustainable environment for all

LOHAS = Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability

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 LOHAS
Lifestyle
of
Health
and
Sustainability

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 GHG Reduction Opportunities
零碳零廢

食 Trees Building 住
Agriculture Waste
Food Freight
Apparel Circular
Economy
衣 Industry Transport 行

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 COOL Ambassadors 10 DOs
“For individuals to pledge LOHAS”

1. Refuse．Reduce源頭減廢
2. Recycle．Reuse循環再用
3. Redesign．Repair升級再造
4. Order Less．Waste Less適食‧惜食
5. Less Meat．More Green多菜少肉
6. Power Smart善用能源
7. Drive Less．More Mass Transit綠色交通
8. Hike．Bike行路踩單車
9. Urban Farming都市農業
10. Fair Trade本土‧ 公平貿易 72
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