Green Olympics? Lessons from Beijing
August 29, 2008, 8:13 am
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All eyes are on Beijing as we tune in to the summer Olympics to see who will get the gold. Leading up to the Olympics, China made big promises to clean up Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games. How well did they do? Greenpeace’s new Olympic report has the answers.China has launched impressive green policies in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but has also missed crucial opportunities to kick start ambitious environmental initiatives across the city, says Greenpeace China in its new report ‘China after the Olympics: Lessons from Beijing’.
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“We are glad to see the achievements the city has made so far. It has made public transport more convenient, upgraded home heating methods, reduced, to some degree, its reliance on fossil fuel, and improved water treatment,” Greenpeace China’s Campaign Director, Lo Sze Ping, said.
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A week of bad news about the global climate crisis points up need for real solutions
August 29, 2008, 7:59 am
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Meanwhile, Congressional Republicans are entering the fourth week of their sit-in on the floor of Congress, an attempt to force Speaker Pelosi to call the House of Representatives back into session and have a vote on offshore drilling legislation. By now the idea that drilling for oil off America’s coastlines would lower gas prices or even significantly wean our country off of foreign oil has been thoroughly debunked. But, in spite of mounting evidence of just how dire the climate crisis has become, they are sticking with this non-solution (repeat a lie often enough…) rather than getting behind real solutions to global warming.
