Air pollution levels in China now higher than before COVID-19
2020年7月7日 · Air pollution in China has risen above levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic for the first time. Having dropped dramatically in the height of lockdown, the concentration of harmful gases seen recently surpasses levels during the same period last year, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).
China’s pollution is so bad it’s blocking sunlight from solar panels
2019年8月5日 · 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.
How China is tackling air pollution with big data - The World …
2021年2月10日 · The 2008 Beijing Olympics marked the start of significant action by the Chinese government to reduce air pollution in China. Concerns were raised over the impact of air pollution on athlete performance, and a wave of restrictions on polluting activities were implemented while the city sat in the global spotlight.
A Chinese professor explains what air pollution does to your health
2019年6月25日 · Here, the assistant professor of Economics, Environment and Sustainability, and Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), whose work has been used to develop the air quality life index (AQLI), talks us through his research into China’s air quality and explains why pollution is one of the greatest ...
China has a water crisis - how can it be solved?
2016年4月29日 · At least one-third of China’s lakes and rivers are unfit for human use, and 73% of the watersheds that supply water to China’s 30 fast-growing cities face medium to high pollution levels. While industrial pollution is the most frequently discussed source of pollution, land use and degradation accounts for about half of the pollution found ...
China has built the ‘world’s largest air purifier’ to battle smog
2018年2月19日 · China has also increased its investment in clean energy, from $7.5 billion in 2005 to more than $101 billion a decade later. This is in addition to investing $44 billion in overseas clean energy projects last year, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
China's pollution pledge and other climate change and …
2022年10月17日 · 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.
China declared war on pollution. Is it winning?
2016年10月27日 · I have confidence that China will win its war on pollution. And it actually is already on the right path towards that goal. Fundamentally, the world requires leadership from countries like China and other large economies, and for them to work together. In the end, they set the global tone, and right now they are needed more than ever.
Asia’s plastic problem is choking the world’s oceans. Here’s how to …
2018年9月11日 · ASEAN member states are among the world’s biggest sources of plastic pollution. More than half of the plastic waste in the ocean comes from just five Asian countries: China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, according to a 2017 report by the Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment.
The positive impacts of China's growing focus on the ocean
2021年5月26日 · Pressure on the ocean from human activities and their impact on the marine environment are becoming more widely understood in China. For restoration and sustainable utilisation of marine resources, China needs to adopt a coordinated management approach under rigorous scientific guidance.