This report shows how air quality in the People's Republic of China's fast-growing Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei industrial hub has deteriorated and presents an integrated, cost-effective model to reduce carbon emissions and other pollutants. Analyzing the costs and benefits of different scenarios, it sets out a modeling framework and shows how adapting policies …
Beijing was one of the 10 Chinese cities with the worst air quality in July, according to a ranking released by the ministry of environmental protection (MEP) on Monday. Nearly 65 percent of July days were polluted in the capital, with one day of heavy pollution, and the main pollutants …
Many Chinese cities offer “sea views”, but of a kind that arouse fear and anger rather than raise spirits. The term is often used scornfully by Chinese media to describe the floods that render roads impassable and sometimes kill people during heavy downpours. They are largely the product of woefully …
Air quality and snow conditions are regarded as two of the major challenges for Beijing's bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics. But the city's bid officials gave an answer and solution to all the concerns, promising clean air and enough snow. Kuala Lumpur: Air quality and snow conditions are regarded …
China's pledges ahead of a major climate change conference in Paris lack ambition and are easily achievable, experts said today, adding Beijing could offer more. Premier Li Keqiang yesterday unveiled the hotly-awaited climate promises in Paris, which will host UN talks at the end of the year tasked with producing …
BEIJING: When Dong Yingli first opened her east Beijing meat skewers restaurant six years ago, her chefs cooked the lamb, chicken hearts and assorted treats over an uncovered grill, with giant fans blowing the clouds of pungent smoke from the sidewalk into the middle of the street. Elsewhere in this …
Since 2012-13, sales have more than doubled, encouraging manufactures to ramp up operations in the county The media’s increasing attention on a surge in air pollution in urban centres, as well as courtroom battles on related issues, have indirectly led to an increase in air purifier sales in India. Since …
NEW DELHI: The air Beijing was inhaling a couple of years ago was as toxic as Delhi's, but the Chinese capital had managed the crisis quickly and effectively. Experts say China's strategies were stringent and aggressive. Beijing barred registration of diesel cars as early as 2003. It implemented China V …
Delhi's appalling air pollution problem might not have prompted the government to take stringent action, but it surely has set the alarm bells ringing amongst its expat community. Penning a piece on the toll it has taken on the life of his own son, The New York Times's South Asia …
Nighttime light data record the artificial light on the Earth’s surface and can be used to estimate the degree of pollution associated with particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) in the ground-level atmosphere. This study proposes a simple method for monitoring PM2.5 concentrations at …
Beijing has extended a ban on outdoor barbecues to restaurants operating in some suburban areas as it tries to improve its notoriously poor air quality in case it wins the 2022 Winter Olympics, state news agency Xinhua reported. Beijing: Beijing has extended a ban on outdoor barbecues to restaurants operating …
Using the natural experiment of air pollution declines during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the researchers evaluated whether having specific months of pregnancy (i.e. 1st…8th) during the 2008 Olympic period was associated with larger birth weights, compared with pregnancies during the same dates in 2007 or 2009.
The recently launched national air quality index, which is supposed to function like US Environment Protection Agency's Air Now system, seems to have to failed to meet expectations. In the US, air quality is monitored in all cities and disseminated in real time along with a health advisory. However, in …
NEW DELHI: A Greenpeace East Asia analysis of air pollution levels in 360 Chinese cities has revealed that air quality in the coastal cities and Beijing has considerably improved in the last one year. The analysis is based on government data for the first quarter of 2015. However, China's central …
International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), which analyses environmental performance and energy efficiency of all modes of transportation to better public health, has recommended a colour-coding system of vehicles to effectively implement the NGT ban on diesel vehicles more than 10 years old. "Enforcing such a ban continuously will be …
BEIJING: Beijing has introduced measures to limit the number of motorists on heavily polluted days, the latest move by authorities in the Chinese capital to battle the choking smog that has blanketed the city in recent years. Lung cancer rates are rising among the 21 million residents of China's capital, …
AT LAST year’s ten-day annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the prime minister, Li Keqiang, declared “war” on pollution. On March 15th, at the end of this year’s meeting, he admitted that government efforts were falling far short of public expectations. He failed to mention …
Extreme haze episodes repeatedly shrouded Beijing during the winter of 2012–2013, causing major environmental and health problems. To better understand these extreme events, we performed a model-assisted analysis of the hourly observation data of PM2.5 and its major chemical compositions. The synthetic analysis shows that (1) the severe winter haze …
Can't lessen air pollution? You could, at least, keep your system immune to its harmful reactions... Take a deep breath. As per The World Health Organization (WHO), pollution is the fifth leading cause of death in India, after high blood pressure and tobacco smoking. WHO says Delhi's air quality is …
The bad news is that diesel usage in vehicles will continue to grow across the world — including India. The good news is that the technology to leapfrog to better fuels is available, and governments and refineries are keen to act on the same. However, only the automobile industry seems …
Presentation by Li Kunsheng of Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
