China has built the ‘world’s largest air purifier’ to battle smog
Feb 19, 2018 · Rob Smith. 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 and is designed to improve air quality in the city, where standards regularly fall short of expectations set by ...
How China is tackling air pollution with big data - The World …
Feb 10, 2021 · 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 ...
Air pollution levels in China now higher than before COVID-19
Jul 7, 2020 · 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.
A Chinese professor explains what air pollution does to your health
Jun 25, 2019 · 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 …
China’s pollution is so bad it’s blocking sunlight from solar panels
Aug 5, 2019 · New research published in the journal Nature Energy suggests the country’s densely polluted atmosphere is blocking the sun’s rays, preventing solar panels from harvesting energy efficiently. 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.
Here's how China is going green | World Economic Forum
Apr 26, 2018 · 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.
Best Ways To Reduce Air Pollution & Tackle Climate Change …
Jul 6, 2020 · The best ways to reduce air pollution and tackle climate change together. Electrifying public transport is one way to lower both air pollution and carbon emissions. Prevailing wisdom holds that measures to reduce air pollution will also tackle climate change, and vice versa - but this is not always the case. A new report has identified the most ...
Where is China’s economy headed? | World Economic Forum
Jun 27, 2024 · The World Economic Forum’s Chief Economists Outlook: May 2024, a survey of top economists around the world, also found that analysts broadly expect further growth in China. Of the economists surveyed in the report, nearly 75% said they expect moderate growth in China. The figure marked an increase from the 69% who expected moderate growth the ...
7 of the world’s 10 most polluted cities are in India
Mar 5, 2019 · This list of the most polluted cities is dominated by India, with seven of the worst 10 cities, and 22 of the worst 30. The most polluted city on earth is Gurugram, a financial and industrial hub of nearly 1 million people situated about 30 kilometres southwest of New Delhi. There, average air pollution levels in 2018 were more than 13 times ...
How cities are tackling the silent killer of air pollution
Mar 18, 2024 · Policies in London, such as the central ULEZ, have contributed to reductions in the number of hospital admissions for asthma attributable to air pollution of 30% in 2017 to 2019, compared to the period between 2014 to 2016. Madrid, Milan and Seoul, meanwhile, are expanding low-emission zones and imposing stricter limits on polluting vehicles.