Nine Days to Go, Extremely Urgent!
Petrochemicals and steel have come to help, but where are electronics and green energy?

Date: Wednesday 21 April 2010
Place: Hong’s Foundation for Education and Culture, Min-Long Lecture Hall (9 Roosevelt Rd. Sec 2, 12F, Taipei)
Time: 2:00pm – 2:30pm

Only nine days to go until the Asia Pacific Greens Network Conference, and over 40 Taiwanese NGOs have signed up to attend. Still more workers from environmental organizations want to attend, but they are struggling to pay the registration fees and the organizers’ fundraising efforts have been extremely disappointing.

Currently both the number one and two greenhouse gas emitters in Taiwan, Formosa Plastics and China Steel, have already supported the attendance of ten environmental organizations, but electronics and green energy businesses, which have been busy building up their green credentials, have completely ignored us! Even a certain high tech company that put up NT$2 million in support of the film ±2°C told us, “Our products are already very green,” and declined to offer even NT$48,000 in support of APGN.

List of companies that supported registration fees for 10 attendees (NT$48,000):

Heavy Industry Supporting Company Type of Industry For Profit Business
Petrochemicals Formosa Plastics Law Firm Winkler Partners
Steel China Steel Metals Industry SanYang Metals Industry、Great Sequoia Corp.
Finance Cathay Life Insurance Retail Business Aveda International
Electronics Green Energy

Not only will Australian Senator Bob Brown, founder of the world’s first Green Party, be in attendance at the conference, but also Dr. Vandana Shiva who helped establish several seed banks throughout India; and Copenhagen Climate Hero Apisai Ielemia, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister will attend and deliver speeches.

Australian Green Party representative Miriam Solomon arrived in Taiwan on the weekend and will be present at the press conference to explain the importance of this conference for climate change in the Asia Pacific Region.

Hosting Organizations: Green Party, The Greens, Wild at Heart Taiwan, The CP Yen Foundation