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7/ Greenhouse gas emissions by China are the largest in the world. It is found by scientific research that global warming cannot be kept below 2 °C unless the emission of greenhouse gas in China falls sharply.
8/ China emitted over 12 gigatonnes (Gt) CO2eq of greenhouse gases and makes up almost 30% of the world total. And in 2018-2019, the emissions shows an increasing trend, contrary to the promise China made in the Copenhagen Accord and Paris Agreement.
9/ However, when China were asked publicly about this, its response is simply “China is a developing countries and it is in desperate needs of economic development”. This clearly shows China does not take the pledge it made in the global arena as promises it has to fulfil.
10/ China made a Joint-Declaration together with Britain before Handover of HK to promised “1Country2System” and universal suffrage for HK in 1984. It is bounded Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which is an international agreement governing treaties between states.
11/ Now it is clear that China is unwilling to keep its promise, and worse still, China has recently declared the Joint-Declaration to be invalid on its own. The Joint-Declaration was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance, China said.
12/ The two examples illustrate that China is never trustworthy and do not take any rules into consideration. It will simply do anything it wants, no matter what are the norms and regulations that it should follow. It takes more than just the youth to address the problem.
13/ Greta & participants of the strike alone can never hold China responsible for breaking its promise. HK’s youth along can never hold China responsible for violating international treaties. The world has to stand in solidarity to be able to achieve results.
14/ @GretaThunberg, let's forces China to comply to the norms that all players in the world ought to, for environmental justice and freedom that we all cherish.https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article204323974/Joshua-Wong-Was-die-Themen-Klimawandel-und-Hongkong-gemeinsam-haben.html …
I always thought 'ok, China has high emissions, but it has also way more people', but was quite shocked when I learned, the emissions per capita are almost as high as Germany's, which isn't a role model either.
Again, what is HK's per capita carbon emission? While parts of China developing too quickly depending on carbon too much, other parts are catching up to the best #GreenTech in the world. Where is HK? The problem is with HK's billionaires still living on a carbon economy.
Yes, hk is guilty too, but what can hkers do when the government doesn't listen to us? We asked a lot of things, proper recycling facilities, subsidies from government, but this govt won't do anything that doesn't benefit itself. That's how bad this govt is.
Time to head for high ground
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