THE HONG KONG CLEAN AIR DRIVE - PRE-EVENT AND EXHIBITION

Partners during the launch of the Clean Air Drive at the Zero Carbon Building in Kowloon. 

Speakers included Ms. Christine Loh (Undersecretary for Environment, Hong Kong), Mr. Christopher To (Executive Director of the Hong Kong Construction Industry Council), Mr. Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen (Danish Artist of CO2 Green Drive/Clean Air Drive, ORANGE), Ms. Sophie Punte (Executive Director, Clean Air Asia), Paul Miles (Nissan General Manager, NGL Communications, China, Asia and Oceania) and Mr. Stephen Wong (Chairman of Clean Air Network). Jørgen Møller, who is CO2 Green Drive's Asian Project Manager can also be seen 5th man from the right, holding a video camera.

To the RIGHT of Yrs Truly,  Ms. Christine Loh (Undersecretary for Environment, Hong Kong), Mr. Christopher To (Executive Director of the Hong Kong Construction Industry Council), Ms. Sophie Punte (Executive Director, Clean Air Asia) along with Celebrity Hong Kong Pop Stars and such.

To the LEFT of Yrs Truly Paul Miles (Nissan General Manager, NGL Communications, China, Asia and Oceania) and Mr. Stephen Wong (Chairman of Clean Air Network) and Hong Kong's Olympic Medal winner in Bicycling.

Wonderful speech by brilliant Ms. Christine Loh (Undersecretary for Environment, Hong Kong) who told about Hong Kong's plans to improve the their carbon footprint and implementation of Electric Cars in general.

Seating Arrangements

Blue Emissions

The LEAF EV from Hong Kong Airport

The LEAF EV from Cathay Pacific

The MIEV from Hong Kong Electric

The MIEV in green, blue, yellow and white.

"Be the World's Greenest Airport" - not sure what it means, but it is a good intention.

The Electric MC from Brammo

Proud Father taking snaps of daughter on a Electric MC.

Reminded me of my own daughter on the other side of the world and a photo I took of her in connection to the Roskilde version of the project in 2010. 

The Zero Carbon Building is right next to the Gigantic Mega Box, that also included an IKEA, where brunch was had, including Swedish Meatballs. The above image is taken from Mega Box in the morning before the event started. See image above this, for the YELLOW IKEA branded Electric Car that can be seen in the streets of Copenhagen.

The Screen that the AIR Tag was shown on was placed in a BLUE tent

The Inflatable START and END sign with all the collaborators logos on.

See next post for The DRIVE photos.

CLEAN AIR DRIVE IN HONG KONG COULD WITH CAN

Here is a quick update from Hong Kong about the successful "Clean Air Drive" held on December 2nd 2012.
All photos by Clean Air Network. I will give another update when I am back in Copenhagen with my own photos.

Above: Partners during the launch of the Clean Air Drive at the Zero Carbon Building in Kowloon.
Speakers included Ms. Christine Loh (Undersecretary for Environment, Hong Kong), Mr. Christopher To (Executive Director of the Hong Kong Construction Industry Council), Mr. Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen (Danish Artist of CO2 Green Drive/Clean Air Drive), Ms. Sophie Punte (Executive Director, Clean Air Asia), Paul Miles (Nissan General Manager, NGL Communications, China, Asia and Oceania) and Mr. Stephen Wong (Chairman of Clean Air Network)

Yrs Truly giving a speech.

Getting ready for the AIR Drive - Electric MC's and some Electric LEAF's

The Bikes getting ready and downloading the CO2 Green Drive APP so they can PAINT the AIR.

The LEAF back again after the AIR Drive

The Electric MC's Back.

...and the Bikes Back!

The route of the Clean Air Drive is shown in this LED display at the Zero Carbon Building. Photo shows Sophie Punte, Glynda Bathan and Chee-Anne Rono of Clean Air Asia, Dr. Wing-tat Hung of the Clean Air Asia Partnership Council and Yuling Jia of Clean Air Network Hong Kong.

A Happy Orange Artist, after the performance!

CLEAN AIR DRIVE - HONG KONG

Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities Center (CAI-Asia) and Clean Air Network (CAN) in Hong Kong’s plans to produce the CO2 Green Drive project in connection with the Better Air Quality 2012 (BAQ) Conference held in Hong Kong on 5-7 December 2012.

So, instead of making a "CO2" tag, an "AIR" tag has been produced.
Read more about the event that is called "Clean Air Drive" on the official BAQ page HERE

The conference is co-organized by the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia), Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (above image), in partnership with the Asian Development Bank and World Bank.

BAQ 2012 (www.baq2012.org) is the leading event on air quality in Asia, covering transport, energy, industry and climate change, with a particular emphasis on government policies and measures.

The above image is of Hong Kong's "Zero Carbon Building", where the Tagging Performance will start. See more HERE

Policy makers and practitioners meet at BAQ to network, learn and share experiences. Past BAQs have proven to influence policies, initiate new projects and establish partnerships. The BAQ 2012 theme is “Growing Cities, Healthy Cities” reflecting the challenge of creating livable cities with blue skies and a low carbon footprint in the face of increasing urbanization in Asia, and ensuring that people’s health is no longer affected by poor air quality.

Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen will also hold a presentation about CO2 Green Drive at  the Danish Exhibition Area’s “Speakers Corner” on December 6th at 15.50, in connection to the Hong Kong Business of Design Week (HKBoDW)