Secretary for the Environment KS Wong will visit France and Italy from tomorrow to July 11.
He will meet with French officials and visit a French enterprise in Paris before attending the RIVE 2015 International Meeting on Green Cars in Alès and meet with other officials.
He will visit Milan on July 8 to learn about the city's food-waste collection and recycling system, and visit an organic waste recycling plant and other waste-to-energy plants.
He will also tour Expo Milano 2015 and meet with officials there, and officiate at the opening reception of the Hong Kong Martial Arts Film Retrospective organised by the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in Brussels.