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Green flag,
SunMake Furniture Co. Ltd., dependent on outside sources,
has adopted foreign technol- but on an increase in local ca-
ogy and the approval of a pacity and diversification. At
patent is in progress. “The present, 70 percent of the ener-
green city?
healthy index of Galilee gy consumed in Macau comes
wooden boards is certified from the mainland. The CEM
respectively by SGS Inter- chief explained to the news
national and IDQ Macau”, agency Lusa last November,
she says. Manufacturing that the productive capacity of
Macau is a noisy, dusty and polluted
takes place on the mainland. Macau can be expanded with
city but slowly, things are beginning
For the moment, Veronica highly efficient central gas.
to change. Officials are getting on board
seems to be fighting a lone He said the project would give
battle, but in fact, Macau, greater power to negotiate
the green train while some local as is increasingly the case with China on energy imports
companies are giving them a hand
in China, is starting to ac- and that the infrastructure
knowledge the importance already exists on Coloane.
by Marta Curto
of a clean environment. With the new plants, emis-
At the first International En- sions of carbon dioxide would
I
T may seem a strange some humans exposed at el- vironmental Cooperation be reduced by 40 percent, and
comment but it neatly evated levels”. forum in Macau, last April, would help illustrate Macau’s
sums up Veronica Leung’s In 2004, the International the Chinese scientific com- contribution to environmental
point: “I am not sure if China Agency for Research on Can- munity talked about the protection which the city has
is interested in environmental cer (IARC) classified it as car- country’s commitment to the undertaken as part of the Kyo-
companies, but I do know that cinogenic to humans. And yet, ideal “Thinking Green, Go- to Protocol, said Willemyn.
Macau pays scant attention to you deal with it every day. ing Clean and Living Cool”.
formaldehyde in wood.’’ Professor Zhang Kunmin re- Lightbulb moments
Leung owns Galilee Future generations viewed a strategy to define the
Healthy Environmental Fur- general lines of a sustainable So much for the big gov-
niture, which was set up in Leung wants to free the energy policy and his commit- ernment initiatives. For Ve-
2005 and whose core business city in which she was born ment to the National Program ronica Leung small can also
is healthy wooden boards. and raised from formaldehyde on Climate Change in China. be good: “ We devote many
According to the Environ- in furniture. By doing this and In Macau, things also seem to resources to the research and
mental Protection Agency’s taking other green initiatives, be changing with the govern- development of healthy furni-
Toxic Substance Control Act, she wants to pass something ment embracing the search for ture, providing our customers
“formaldehyde is a chemical of value on to the next gen- new and greener energy sourc- with healthy protection and
used in building materials and eration and shape her vision es. The chairman of the Ex- contributing to environmental
numerous household products. “to contribute to a city with a ecutive Committee of CEM, protection in pollution reduc-
The substance can cause wa- green environment”. Macau’s electricty provider, tion,’’ she says, adding that
tery eyes, burning sensations Galilee Healthy Envi- Franklin Willemyn, said the her main clients are in Macau
in the eyes and throat, nausea, ronmental Furniture Ltd., a future of the energy structure and mainland China. Her fu-
and difficulty in breathing in wholly owned subsidiary of of the territory should not be ture plans include expansion
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