CRI-Q#4 What is being done in your area to popularize low-carbon living?
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Q#4 - What is being done in your area to popularize low-carbon living?
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Q# 4- What’s being done in your area to popularize low-carbon living?
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As a Beijinger, actually in Beijing there has been a few changes,when I was young, I lived at PingFang (flat house not apartment),every family stay warm by burning coal, but right now each PingFang use electrical radiators instead of a furnace. it’s also safer than before, because at the time many people died by gas poisoning.
and also I was in a picture with Phillip showing three fingers to popularize The World Sustainability Project_\!/
Yes I remember you Daniel \!/_(^_^)_\!/
Philip McMaster, World Sustainability Project, Beijing, China
Beijing has begun to promote the benefits of public transportation towards the public and students; advertising has been repeated in the subway system to understand how taking public transportation is contributing to the green world.
Brian Ho, Director, China, CSR - ASIA
http://www.csr-asia.com
Beijing has begun to promote the benefits of public transportation towards the public and students; advertising has been repeated in the subway system to understand how taking public transportation is contributing to the green world.
Brian Ho, Director, China, CSR - ASIA
Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility in the Asia Pacific Region
Engaging with the issues as they emerge
The activities under our Project’s environmental awareness component represent a good example of spreading information on how to reduce carbon emissions by taking simple actions and adjusting behaviours in the daily life: we organize training to teach our green volunteers to hold special lessons on resource conservation, climate change and low-carbon lifestyle in primary and middle schools and to carry out an assessment of the environmental impact of offices and give suggestions on making the office more environmentally friendly. In this way not only we raise the volunteers’ environmental awareness and build their capacity but we can also reach a vast number of children in schools as well as the general public through a series of volunteer-driven advocacy activities. Furthermore, we will soon launch a website dedicated to volunteers and the environment where people can learn about easy ways to contribute to a cleaner future, either by paying attention to a few things in every day life or/and by actively volunteering for the environment. The project’s implementing partner is Beijing Volunteer Federation and our aim is to do our part in improving Beijing’s environment, but we would also like to create a model that can be replicated in other parts of China.
Fiammetta Mancini
Partnerships Coordinator - International UNV
“Strengthening Volunteerism for Development through the 2008 Beijing Olympics”, a cooperation project between the UN and Beijing Volunteer Federation to promote sustainable development in China through the power of volunteerism.
Project partners: UNDP, UNV, Beijing Youth League, Beijing Volunteer Federation, China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges.
Refrigerators: refrigerators storage the amount of memory in order to put food accounted for 60% of suitable volume, put too much or too little, have to spend power. Food between the food and the refrigerator should be kept between the gap of about 10 mm or more. To use a few plastic boxes filled with water, in the freezer into the refrigerator after the ice is made, this can be extended downtime, reduce boot time.
Air-condition: Air-conditioning to start a larger instantaneous current, frequently switch air-conditioning is very wasteful of electricity, and easy to damage to compressor. At night can be without all night air conditioning, saving nearly 900%.
By the end of 2009, Chinese government to publish the emission reduction targets” GDP of carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 reduce 40% -45% than in 2005 “,in Copenhagen Climate Conference, which is Chinese government clearly stated emission reduction targets for the first time. Actually, prior to this, Chinese local governments have been actively developing their emission reduction targets and strategy. I also serves as special observer status of UN attended the conference, including its train meeting, opening ceremony, various seminars.
As an example of Our location -Shenzhen, in 90s of the last century , it began to develop the standards, such as “The energy-saving design standard of Shenzhen residential buildings ”, and started in 2002, the energy efficiency standard has reached 50% at that time. The laws and regulations of other standards in all areas , such as exhaust testing of automotive vehicle, buses change to natural gas, decoration industry standards, urban planning standards, Construction standards, etc., which have been drawn up, and actively implement and continuously improve. Shenzhen also has made various efforts, so it got Chinese first LIVCOM Garden sample City Gold in 2000, and received worldwide recognition.
The popularity of low-carbon life occurred in the global background of response to climate change. This popularity was initiated by the Government firstly, infiltrate to the residents by various channels later, the main ways include a variety of public events, forums, exhibitions, reading month, athletic meetings and so on. As a local no-profit NGO organization, which is dedicated to promote the sustainable development of Chinese cities and communities and Chinese liveable ecological environment construction, we invite experts?scholars, international friends in the field, and decision-makers on urban construction and community building to communicate and hold seminars on the low-carbon cities and community-building every year in Shenzhen, nearly one hundred media outlets across the country to publicize and advertize “Habitat, environment and development” as the theme for us, which have greatly contributed to the popularity of low-carbon life.
Billy-Li Xiang , General Manager / Director, Jia Cui (China) Environment and Development Promotion Center, Shenzhen, China. http://www.livcom.org