The MIECF in Macao just opened (http://www.macaomiecf.com/miecf2016/en/) and "waste management" has just been made the top priority. Well, I guess "priorities", plural, would be more appropriate! Based on the latest statistics regarding the total consumption of electricity in Macao, it is now safe to say that Macao consumes 25% more electricity per capita than in Hong Kong! In an article that I published about infrastructures in Macao back in 2011 (Infrastructures 2.0 in Macao: The need for an outward push and inward improvements), I lamented: "our yearly consumption of electricity in Kwh per head is now above Hong Kong and still, big consumers don’t pay more than small ones"... Well, well, in Hong Kong, there is "a plan" (yes, a plan with public details, yearly targets, assessments and all) about reducing energy consumption by 40% at the horizon of 2025 (see http://www.enb.gov.hk/…/de…/files/pdf/EnergySavingPlanEn.pdf). In Macao, we keep breaking records of consumption and a Macao individual consumed about 7,700Kwh in 2015 whereas the equivalent figure for Hong Kong was about 6,160Kwh... in effect that's 25% more! And I thought that greening was one of the five priorities...
This is the graph for HK, where is Macao standing?
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