Civic Exchange’s New Policy Direction: Using Cleaner Fuels
While some business groups have called for the immediate development of such a campaign, Civic Exchange is aware of the dangers in fostering campaigns without sufficient data and analysis. For instance, while Hong Kong experience has shown us that industry can indeed switch to using cleaner fuels with minimal costs and obvious health benefits (see Section 1.3), the availability of such fuels in the PRD is currently unknown and the market and regulatory laws pertaining to the supply of cleaner fuels in Mainland China is not fully understood. In order to build a successful campaign Civic Exchange aims to undertake this research in a way that will maximise input from the different stakeholders involved so as to address different perspectives and develop, where possible, consensus based solutions.
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