[Environmental] NCKU Jade Mountain Forum Focuses on Sustainable Environment

[Environmental] NCKU Jade Mountain Forum Focuses on Sustainable Environment (Chinese Version)

NCKU News (2012/04/24) National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, held the 2012 Jade Mountain Forum on Sustainable Environment April 19-20 to discuss the most pressing issues like climate change and bio-energy and call for greater attention to sustainable development of Planet Earth.

Nearly 300 scholars and experts from Canada, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan participated in the event in which 26 research papers were represented, according to Juu-En CHANG, Director of NCKU Sustainable Environment Research Center who organized the conference.

Minister Shu-Hung Stephen SHEN of the Cabinet-level Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), Mayor Ching-te LAI of Tainan City, NCKU Executive Vice President Huey-Jen Jenny SU, Director CHANG of NCKU Sustainable Environment Research Center, together with scholars attending in the forum, signed a Declaration of Jade Mountain urging people to pay attention to environmental sustainability.

Panel discussions were held on such topics as bio-energy resource, control of persistent pollutants, low-carbon city and environmental education, university-industry cooperation on environmental engineering in southern Taiwan, and climate change and water environment.

The Jade Mountain Declaration was officially announced on the Mt. Jade by a scholar-team led by Director CHANG on Earth Day, April 22:

“The earth which we live on is facing an unsustainable future. As professionals in the Pacific Region, we share a genuine concern and sense of duty. We hence declare at the top of Jade Mountain a common vision and approach on environmental conservation. Our goal is to establish a ‘low carbon, low risk, zero waste’ society. Our action is to help to ensure a sustainable environment through global alliance, local actions, collective effort and continuous improvement.”


Further Information:
NCKU News 2012/04/24

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