基本資料
- Introduction to Hong Kong’s air pollution
- Introduction to Clean Air Network, the organization
- A few facts about CAN and Hong Kong’s air pollution (2010)
- CAN’s mission and board members (2010)
健康
成人
- World Health Organization’s Air Quality Guidelines (2005)
WHO Air Quality Guidelines for particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide – Global update 2005 – Summary of risk assessment - Open letter by HK medical associations to the Hong Kong government(2010)
- Professor Hedley on air pollution and health
- Part I (2010)
- Part II (2010)
- Impacts of idling on the health of drivers (2010)
- Air Pollution and Social Justice (2010)
A report on how the poor in Hong Kong are disproportionately affected by air pollution - Health Effects Institute: Public Health and Air Pollution in Asia: Key Results from Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Wuhan (2008)
The five studies in this report provide a relatively consistent, if limited, picture of the acute mortality impact of current ambient particulate air pollution in several large metropolitan areas in East and Southeast Asia.
The Hong Kong portion of the study was based on a longitudinal study conducted by CM Wong of HKU, studying subjects from 1996-2002. A combined analysis of all cities shows that the effects of mortality on the uneducated were twice as much (with the exception of O3), and the excess mortality resulting from 10 micrograms more of PM10 was 0.6%. - Civic Exchange: A Price too High – The Health Impacts of Air Pollution in Southern China (2008)
In this research report, the authors have estimated that nearly 10,000 deaths have occurred due to air pollution in 2006 in the Southern China region, with the majority (94%) occurring in the Pearl River Delta. Air pollution is responsible for some 440,000 annual hospital bed-days and 11 million outpatient visits annually throughout the region. The authors suggest that a long-term air quality management framework and a commitment to reducing air pollution expediently is the solution. - Civic Exchange: Report on the Air Quality on the State of Public Health in Southern China (2008)
This report describes the development of a model for estimating the health burden due to air pollution in Pearl River Delta by incorporating health effect estimates (i.e. the excess risks) from daily time-series studies of air pollution and estimating the avoidable impact of air pollution, in terms of health care utilization, deaths and the community costs, for exceedances of the WHO guideline values and US EPA standards. The aims of the project are to estimate the direct and indirect costs of health care utilization due to air pollution attributable diseases in the Pearl River Delta including Macau and Hong Kong and compare the health care costs between the Pearl River Delta, Macau and Hong Kong.
兒童
- Child health impacts article (2010)
- Air Pollution and Child Health video (2010) (Chinese)
An Interview with Dr. Yu Chak Man on air pollution and child health - Children’s health video (2010)
An interview with Professor Hedley on how air pollution impacts children’s health - Air Pollution and Child Health (2009)
Professor Anthony Hedley’s paper to LegCo discussing children’s health and environmental safety
長者
- Elderly health video (2010)
污染源頭
- Civic Exchange: Relative Significance of Local vs Regional Sources (2007)
This report looks at two traditional approaches – one based on total emissions in terms of tonnage and another based on receptor source apportionment in terms of mass concentration. It then introduces a new approach, which gives a time-based perspective. It answers the question of how many days in a year Hong Kong’s air quality is affected by regional and local emissions respectively. - Hong Kong’s Polluting Buses power point (2010)
Why the buses on Hong Kong’s roads are a major threat the public health - A Glimpse of Hong Kong’s Commercial Diesel Vehicles (2010)
A breakdown of Hong Kong’s Commercial Diesel Vehicles contribution to roadside pollution - Environmental Protection Department’s Study of Air Quality in the Pearl River Delta Region (2002)
香港科技大學研究
- Mapping Roadside Air Quality in your District (2010)
Mobile Real-time Air Monitoring Platform (MAP) is a research project developed by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to interface air pollutant measurements with meteorological and GPS data, as it happens. It makes real time measurements recording pollutant data in areas accessible by roads, such as school, commercial and residential areas. Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Ozone (O3) and Carbon Monoxide (COx) were measured in all 18 districts in Hong Kong and comparisons of air quality levels were made in accordance to standards set by Environmental Protection Department and World Health Organization. It was found that Hong Kong’s legal standard permits 2-3 times more air pollutants than the WHO’s guidelines, meaning that some of the pollution levels permitted in Hong Kong have actually exceed safe standards. Among the 18 districts, Wanchai is found to the most polluted one due to the combined factors of high traffic flow and the canyon effect incurred by the surrounding skyscrapers. - Mobile Realtime Air Monitoring Platform power point (2010)
The pollution data from the MAP project sheds light and gives insights towards what policies should crafted. For instance, traffic control (e.g. bus stops, traffic lights) has significant impact on local air quality. Careful town planning, including building location, traffic and open space provisions, are essential in improving air quality in a specific locality. Shipping emissions contribute significantly to SO2 concentration in residential districts such as Kwai Tsing. The Environmental Protection Deparment’s proposed Low Emission Zones, as they are currently designed, do not properly cover all of Hong Kong’s most polluted areas and fails to protect vulnerable populations such as schools and hospitals. - Civic Exchange: Fixing roadside pollution – Matching problems with solutions (2010)
HKUST results of study press release
政策: 空氣質素指標檢討及基本資料
- Hong Kong’s Air Quality Objectives (2006)
- Comparison of Hong Kong’s Air Quality Objectives with air quality standards of the new WHO guidelines and other countries (2006)
- Environmental Protection Department: A Study to Review Hong Kong’s Air Quality Objectives
- Review of the Air Quality Objectives and Development of a Long Term Air Quality Strategy for Hong Kong – Feasibility Study (Final Report)(2009)
- Review of the Air Quality Objectives and Development of a Long Term Air Quality Strategy for Hong Kong – Feasibility Study (Executive Summary) (2009)
- Environmental Protection Department: Air Quality Objectives public consultation
- Booklet (2009)
- Leaflet (2009)
- CAN’s official response to the AQO review (2009)
- EPD: Air Quality Objectives Review Public Consultation Forum Final Report(2009)
- Oct 6 2009 Legco public consultation (2009)
Special LegCo Session of 6 October 2009, regarding the EPD’s AQO proposal - Professor Hedley’s Response to the AQO Review (2009)
- LegCo: Motion to Improve Air Quality (2010)
政策: 更新舊型號專營巴士
- Civic Exchange: Paying for a Cleaner Bus Fleet: How Government can Break the Log Jam (2009)
This policy paper prepared by Civic Exchange urges the HKSAR Government to tell the public that the cost of upgrading Hong Kong’s old and highly polluting franchised bus can be shared among the bus operators, the public purse and bus riders. Civic Exchange believes that the government has wrongly given the public the impression that bus riders must bear the entire cost of upgrading the fleet. - Subsidy to replace Euro I and Euro II Franchised Buses Still on the Street on 1 January 2013 (2010)
A bus subsidy proposal - Proposed Scrapping Incentive for Pre-Euro and Euro I Commercial Diesel Vehicles (2010)
A scrapping incentive for commercial diesel vehicles (non franchised buses) proposal - A Glimpse of Hong Kong’s Commercial Vehicle Fleet (2010)
A breakdown of vehicular emissions on the roadside - Legco: Encouraging owners of Pre-Euro and Euro I diesel commercial vehicles to replace their vehicles by offering one-off grant (2006)
- Legco: One-off grant to encourage early replacement of pre-Euro and Euro I diesel commercial vehicles with new ones complying with the prevailing statutory emission standard (2007)
- Legco Finance Committee: One-off grant to encourage early replacement of pre-Euro and Euro I diesel commercial vehicles with new ones complying with the prevailing statutory emission standard (2009)
- Legco: Administration’s response to the deputations’ written submissions for the meeting on 10 March 2010 and the Motor Traders Association of Hong Kong’s written submission on 13 April 2010 (2010)
- Legco: Early Replacement of Old Diesel Commercial Vehicle (2010)
政策: 更新最老舊污染的貨車
- Hong Kong Truck Backgrounder (2010)
Breakdown of the contribution of trucks to roadside pollution and proposals for solutions to get the oldest, most polluting trucks off Hong Kong’s roads
政策: 停車熄匙
- Legco: Motor Vehicle Idling (Fixed Penalty) Bill (2010)
- Clean Air Network Briefing Paper on the Motor Vehicle Idling (Fixed Penalty) Bill (2010)
- CAN’s position on the bill (2010)
- Open Letter to the Legislative Council’s Bill Committee on Motor Vehicle Idling ( Fixed Penalty) Bill (2010)
Letter from Medical Associations to the Hong Kong government - Impacts of idling on the health of drivers (2010)
Driver health research sent to EPD - LegCo Diary: Legislators advocate idling exemptions for hottest days(2010)
Summary of views expressed by various legislators during the Bills Committee meeting for the Idling Bill on July 8, 2010 - Idling while air pollution goes through the roof (2010)
CAN CEO Joanne Oois’s op-ed in SCMP
政策: 重組巴士路線
- Legco: Rationalization of Bus Routes to Improve Air Quality (2010)
政策: NON-ROAD MOBILE SOURCES
船舶污染
- Civic Exchange: Green Harbours; Hong Kong & Shenzhen – Reducing Marine and Port-Related Emissions (2008)
This report outlines the threats to public health caused by rising toxic emissions from the rapid growth of marine related activities in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. It also identifies a number of short medium and long-term solutions for tackling the problems, and calls on the Hong Kong SAR and Shenzhen Governments to develop a strategy to reduce the threats based on best practices from around the world. - Civic Exchange: Marine Emission Reduction Options for Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta Region (2006)
This paper focuses on marine emissions in the region and on what can be done to ensure that they are operated cleanly to prevent being overwhelmed by polluting activities, given that this is one of the world’s most prominent manufacturing and logistics sectors. - NY Times: Challenges in Reducing Pollution From Ships (2010)
- NY Times: Danish Shipping Giant to Switch to Cleaner Fuel When in Hong Kong (2010)
- CNN: Ship firm floats plan to cut Hong Kong smog (2010)
- SCMP: Shipping lines set course for lower gas emissions (2010)
發電燃料組合
- Civic Exchange: Hong Kong’s Energy Future – Paper I (2008)
Commentary on the memorandum of understanding between the National Energy Administration and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government on the supply of natural gas and electricity to Hong Kong - Civic Exchange: Hong Kong’s Energy Future – Paper II (2008)
Report about mainland gas for Hong Kong: uncertainties over supply, price, and emission impacts.
民意調查
- Civc Exchange: Hong Kong’s Silent Epidemic (2008)
2008 public opinion survey on Hong Kong People’s attitudes toward air pollution, environment and public health - Parent Survey power point (2010)
- Findings of Public Consultation on Review of Air Quality Objectives (2009)
- Mercer Quality of Living survey (2010)
Results show that Singapore beats Hong Kong as Asia’s most livable city - Gallup Air Quality survey (2010)
percentage of population satisfied or dissatisfied with their countries’ air quality for 153 countries - Gallup Potential Net Migration survey (2009)
the number of adults who would like to move permanently out of a country subtracted from the estimated number who would like to move into it, as a proportion of the total adult population. - DAB poll (2010) (Chinese)
Survey done by the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) asking interviewees to rate Hong Kong’s air quality
健康空氣行動發表文章
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短片
- Helping to clean the air (2010)
An official video by the HKSAR’s Environmental Protection Department - Breathing not allowed (2010)
CAN’s first animated video - CAN’s first public service announcement (2010)
- Clean Air 1-2 Go (2010)
A short film project with Hong Kong secondary school kids - Professor Anthony Hedley on air pollution and its health effects
- Part I (2010)
- Part II (2010)
- Children’s health video (2010)
An interview with Professor Anthony Hedley on how air pollution impacts children’s health - Daniel Wu loves “Fresh Air” (2010)
CAN’s second public service announcement - “Clean Up the Air One Signature at a Time” Campaign Petition Hand-In (2010)
The action to hand in the Petition for Clean Air to the Environmental Protection Department
傳媒報導
- SCMP: New clean-air ally joins pollution fight (2009)
Article about origins of Clean Air Network - CNNGo: Clean Air Network’s Joanne Ooi: Why this is ‘our most important year’ (2010)
Article on why 2010 is the time to get aggressive about air pollution - AsiaOne: Hong Kong eateries and gyms launch clean air campaign (2010)
Article about Consumer Petition Sign-up Campaign - BBC: Hong Kong group launches air pollution campaign (2010)
Article about Consumer Petition Sign-up Campaign - NY Times: A Call for Hong Kong to Clean the Air (2010)
Article about business leaders calling for cleaner air - CNNGo: Citypulse: Banning engine idling is low-hanging fruit that must be picked (2010)
Article about Idling Engine Bill - NY Times: Fresh Air for Sale, in Hong Kong (2010)
Article about Daniel Wu for “Fresh Air” Infomercial - Inhabitat: Hong Kong Activist Group Selling “Fresh Air” for 25 Cents a Bottle (2010)
Article about Daniel Wu for “Fresh Air” Infomercial - Huffington Post: ‘Fresh Air’: Daniel Wu And Clean Air Network’s Commercial For Avoiding Pollution With Canned Air (VIDEO) (2010)
Article about Daniel Wu for “Fresh Air” Infomercial
其他城市
- London Low Emission Zone Plan
- Research Study Conducted for Transport for London (2010)
- “The Low Emission Zone is now in operation” leaflet (2010)