Dear Environmental Protection Department,

We are a group of year 3 students from Hong Kong Baptist University, who have registered for a course coded GCAP3056 “Taking a stand: Engaging in Public Discourse through Advanced Research and Writing”. We take it as an opportunity to explore the social issues and finally we choose the theme “achieving carbon neutrality in Hong Kong” as our semester project and “Low Carbon Living Calculator” is what we want to focus on. We sincerely hope that you could assist us on the project by providing relevant information.

A. Basic back-end data about the carbon calculator (Data evaluation report).

According to our research, the carbon calculator website developed by the Environment Bureau is the most complete local carbon calculator that suits Hong Kong residents’ lifestyle. This carbon calculator collects personal living data from different categories, including living, travel, food as well as clothing, and it provides conclusion reports with suggestions to be more environmentally friendly, which are missed by other local carbon calculators. Therefore, in order to evaluate the effectiveness in improving carbon neutrality, it is worth having a deeper analysis on the current usage situation of this governmental carbon calculator.

Questions are sorted as follows:
1. How many people are using the carbon calculator? Please provide the monthly figures in the past 24 months.
2. How often do people visit the website of the carbon calculator? Please provide the monthly figures in the past 24 months.
3. How many people finished the whole process of the calculation? Please provide the monthly figures in the past 24 months.
4. Had the government updated the carbon calculator since it was set? If so please provide details.

Thank you so much for your time, and please kindly reply at your earliest convenience.

Yours faithfully,
Phoebe Leung, Betty Wang, Yoyo Yu, Krystal Huang