earth science

Greenpeace East Asia

Greenpeace East Asia is a earth science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Greenpeace East Asia rather than just read about it. In short: Greenpeace East Asia is an office serving the East Asia region of the global environmental organization Greenpeace. History Greenpeace East Asia's first China office was opened in Hong Kong in 1997.

Key takeaways

Greenpeace East Asia belongs to earth science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Greenpeace East Asia to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Greenpeace East Asia from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Greenpeace East Asia is an office serving the East Asia region of the global environmental organization Greenpeace.

History Greenpeace East Asia's first China office was opened in Hong Kong in 1997. Early actions included a blockade of a shipment of electronic waste from Australia and a campaign highlighting the dangers of PVC in children's toys. Before offices were formally opened in Guangzhou and Beijing in 2002, activists from the Hong Kong office ran several campaigns in mainland China. These included investigations into electronic waste dumping in Guangdong province and a campaign to stop US-headquartered biotechnology firm Monsanto Company from patenting a Chinese indigenous soy bean variety. Early mainland-based campaigns focused on food and agriculture and electronic waste. Since then Greenpeace East Asia has broadened its mandate into efforts to urge China's wood products industry to import environmentally sound timber, clean up its polluted rivers and lakes, and highlight the urgency of stopping climate change.

Campaigns Greenpeace East Asia runs five main campaigns: climate and energy, food and agriculture, toxics (water pollution), forests and a campaign on air pollution. The organisation uses non-violent direct action to draw attention to what it considers significant threats to the environment and also lobbies for solutions. It emphasizes that while "surging economic development in East Asia has brought widespread prosperity, [it] has also taken a severe environmental toll, both regionally and worldwide." The website also lists several achievements including:

In 1998, following a Greenpeace campaign, Hong Kong banned the import and re-export of hazardous waste. In 2006, Greenpeace East Asia was the only NGO to be consulted on an early draft of a renewable energy law by China's National People's Congress. Two Greenpeace expeditions to China's Himalayan region in 2006 and 2007 produced evidence of dramatic glacial retreat. On July 6, 2010 Greenpeace China took action against Asia Pulp & Paper and French supermarket chain Auchan, which carries APP paper products such as Breeze (清风 Qingfeng) tissue paper. Activists, dressed as the Sumatran tiger buried themselves under packages of Breeze toilet paper rolls while forest campaigner Ma Lichao spoke to the media about the issues. Although critical of its forestry practices in the past, Greenpeace is now working with APP to monitor its sustainability strategy including the implementation of its Forest Conservation Policy. Currently one of Greenpeace East Asia's key campaigns is to encourage China to reduce its reliance on coal as a power source and to speed up the development of the renewable energy sector instead. Apart from specific campaigns, they also work with local organisations from time to time for general advocacy, including with the Geography Society of PLK Vicwood KT Chong Sixth Form College between 2008 and 2009.

Research reports In June 2021, it released Missing Brownfields- Hong Kong Brownfields Report 2021, a collaborative report with Liber Research Community where together, they found a total of 1,950 hectares of brownfield sites, 379 more hectares than the government was previously able to locate.

See also Greenpeace Environmental issues in China Agriculture in China Geography of China Energy in China Renewable energy in China Coal power in China

References

External links Greenpeace East Asia Greenpeace International

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Greenpeace East Asia

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Greenpeace East Asia claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In earth science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Greenpeace East Asia before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Greenpeace East Asia ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Greenpeace East Asia

In research: Greenpeace East Asia appears in earth science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Greenpeace East Asia in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Greenpeace East Asia is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Civil disobedience, Climate change organizations, Environmental organizations based in China, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Greenpeace East Asia outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Greenpeace East Asia in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Greenpeace East Asia means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Greenpeace East Asia out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Greenpeace East Asia in simple terms?

Greenpeace East Asia is an office serving the East Asia region of the global environmental organization Greenpeace. History Greenpeace East Asia's first China office was opened in Hong Kong in 1997.

Why does Greenpeace East Asia matter?

Because it connects several earth science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Greenpeace East Asia?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Greenpeace East Asia.