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Former UN senior official praises city’s green efforts
    2022-09-14  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Han Ximin

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IN a tweet yesterday, Erik Solheim, former U.N. under-secretary-general, praised Shenzhen as the first city in the world where all its public transport has gone electric.

“In the city, 16,000 buses and 20,000 taxis without combustion engines,” Solheim said. “Who is next?”

He was the executive director of the United Nations Environment Program from 2016 to 2018 and is now president of Green Belt and Road Institute.

Solheim is a former Norwegian diplomat. He served in the Norwegian Government from 2005 to 2012 as a minister of international development and minister of environment.

A short video in Solheim’s tweet showed Shenzhen’s effort in becoming the first major city in the world with an all-electric fleet by replacing its old taxis and buses with electric ones. The video received 45,300 views and his tweet received 670 likes as of 8 p.m. yesterday.

The undated video, originally from wef.ch/watch, the World Economic Forum website’s video channel, quoted sources from Shenzhen Human Settlement and Environment Commission (now renamed Shenzhen Ecological Environment Bureau), saying that the city is now breathing its cleanest air in 15 years. It also quoted the European Environment Agency as saying that electric vehicles are still much better for the environment overall despite concerns on disposing batteries and much of the electricity uses is produced by coal power stations.

To improve air quality, Shenzhen has unveiled a series of measures over the past years, including replacing all its fuel-powered buses in 2017 and gradually replacing its cabs with electric-powered ones.

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