Hong Kong environment chief to attend UN climate summit in Turkey
Hong Kong's Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan will leave for Antalya, Turkey, to join the Chinese delegation at the 31st UN Climate Change Conference. He will speak at a China side event and hold bilateral meetings on the city's carbon reduction and climate strategies.
Hong Kong's Secretary for Environment and Ecology, Tse Chin-wan, will leave the city tonight to travel to Antalya, Turkey, where he will join the Chinese delegation attending the 31st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
At the climate summit, Tse will deliver a speech at a side event held in the China Pavilion. He will also hold bilateral meetings with other participating representatives to present Hong Kong's strategies and progress in carbon reduction and climate change response.
The Commissioner for Climate Change of the Environment and Ecology Bureau, Yang Sau-kuen, and other bureau officials will accompany the secretary on the trip. Tse is scheduled to return to Hong Kong on the afternoon of 13 November.
During his absence, Deputy Secretary for Environment and Ecology Wong Suk-han will serve as acting secretary.
