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China has created a giant air purifier in order to combat the amount of smog in the city of Xian. Image: REUTERS/Stringer. Scientists at China’s Institute of Earth Environment have constructed what they say is the world’s largest air purifier in the northern city of Xian. The experimental smog-sucking tower stands at over 100 metres tall ...
The fight against air pollution is an example that foreshadows China’s ability to take action on climate change and redeem global trust for a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable future. President Xi Jinping’s ambitious pledges that China will reach peak emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, have motivated industries to ...
Air pollution in China has gone beyond pre-crisis levels for a 30-day period from mid-April. Polluting industries are seeing a spike in activity. Recent studies suggest a correlation between air pollution levels and deaths from coronavirus. Air pollution in China has risen above levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic for the first time.
After the Games, from 2010 to 2013, the air quality in China deteriorated again. But in 2013, the government initiated the so-called war against pollution. Over the past five years, the air quality in northern Chinese cities, which were very polluted, on average has improved by more than 35%.
Air quality improved by 35% in the highly polluted northern Chinese cities between 2013 and 2017. This represented significant progress, but China still has a considerable problem with its air quality today. The annual average concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) across China was 57 micrograms per metre cubed in 2017, nearly six ...
China’s rapid economic expansion was largely fuelled by coal, which lifted millions of people out of poverty but also drove up levels of air pollution. Led by Bart Sweerts of the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science in Zurich, the study mapped the effect of China’s air pollution on potential solar output from the 1960s up to 2015.
The total annual cost of air pollution in China is estimated to be $900 billion each year with costs in the U.S. running to $600 billion annually. Indian cities have scored unfavorably in air pollution indexes for years and the issue costs the country $150 billion per year on average. In 2018, the cost of dirty air equated to 6.6 percent of ...
In a bid to tackle these challenges, China’s government has declared a “war on pollution” and introduced a number of green initiatives. Here are the most important ones: Less coal, cleaner air. China has taken steps to dismantle coal-fired power plants, reduce overall emission levels and cut particulate-matter emission rates.
Amid concerns over China’s outdoor air quality, a team of JLL researchers decided to look at indoor air quality at offices, where most people spend the majority of their time working. The team surveyed 160 office buildings in Beijing in the second half of 2015 and found that the air inside is as polluted as the air outside.
This weekly round-up brings you key environment stories from the past seven days. Top environment and climate change stories: China's President Xi Jinping vowed to 'eliminate' air and water pollution; Development bank climate finance grew in 2021; Oslo's mission to become the first capital with all-electric public transport. 1.