Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau will attend the 15th session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP15, next week, and the Climate Summit for Mayors in Copenhagen. He will also visit environmental facilities in Sweden.

Mr Yau will meet Malmo Mayor IImar Reepalu in Sweden at a lunch reception hosted by the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office  in London on December 13. He will visit a waste incineration plant and a power plant to see their green initiatives.

The next day Mr Yau will visit the Ports of Stockholm and meet the chairman of the Tallberg Foundation which promotes sustainable development. He will then attend a lunch to brief the Swedish business community on Hong Kong's latest developments.

That afternoon he will join guided tours by Stockholm's Environmental Administration to a low-emission zone and see goods logistic projects. He will also see the production of biogas - a fuel for lower emissions - a biogas fuelling station, and a new eco-city under planning.

December 15, Mr Yau will speak at the opening press conference for the Copenhagen Climate Summit for Mayors. He will then attend the VIP lunch hosted by Climate Leaders Summit 2009 and speak at a roundtable discussion on low-carbon transport. Later that day he will attend the opening of COP15 and the Seal the Deal in Copenhagen reception and dinner.

On December 16, Mr Yau will attend the Joint High-level Segment of COP15. In the evening he will take part in the closing ceremony of the Climate Summit for Mayors.

He will call on the Chinese Ambassador in Denmark Xie Hangsheng, and Hong Kong stakeholders on December 17. He will then attend all the remaining sessions of the Joint High-level Segment of COP15 and take part in the closing session on December 18 before returning to Hong Kong.