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As Asia’s world city, Hong Kong has a responsibility to pay attention to social and environmental progress, as well as to economic growth. This was just one of many important points made by the Hong Kong Chief Executive, Mr Tung Chee Hwa, when he addressed the United Nations Sustainable Development Leadership Forum in February.
Hong Kong has taken note of the Plan of Implementation derived from the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit, said Mr Tung, “as our local strategy for putting the principles of sustainable development into practice begins to take shape.”
Education is essential, he continued, “to effect a change of mindset that would encourage our citizens to think in terms of real longer-term benefits for our quality of life.” The SARS outbreak and avian flu have brought issues of sustainable public health into sharp focus and underscored the need to maintain strong networks of support for citizens.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has gradually sought to make sustainable development an underlying principle when formulating new policies and programmes. Mr Tung advised the group that in 2003, he appointed a Council for Sustainable Development to advise his Government and to champion the cause of sustainability within the community.
“We need to do more than simply promote and encourage the concept of sustainable development,” stated Mr Tung. “We have to implement it as a core feature of our future plans and projects.”
He added that Hong Kong should look to working closely with its neighbours in addressing these challenges. “From that point of view, the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China is equally committed to the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation of sustainable development of the whole country.”
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