Could China’s cooking oil spur SAF globally? | World Economic …
2024年12月6日 · With China's air travel market projected to be the world's largest by 2043, these fuels could support its decarbonization goals. Other regions and countries, such as Europe and the US, are also pursuing SAF but Europe's ability to scale production faces challenges due to high labour costs, limited feedstocks and global competition.
China has built the ‘world’s largest air purifier’ to battle smog
2018年2月19日 · 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 the World ...
A Chinese professor explains what air pollution does to your health
2019年6月25日 · 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%.
How China is tackling air pollution with big data - The World …
2021年2月10日 · Poor outdoor air quality results in over 1 million deaths across China each year. Further improvements will be increasingly challenging as the easiest actions have already been picked off. Targeting future regulations effectively requires robust data about the sources of air pollution, backed up by strong enforcement to ensure any new ...
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).
In 10 years, Beijing has drastically cut air pollution. Here's how
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How cities are tackling the silent killer of air pollution
2024年3月18日 · Signatory cities of the Clean Air Accelerator use low-cost sensors, with 35 of 50 cities using them in their air quality networks. Breathe London's network expanded from 136 to over 400 monitoring sites. Jakarta added 14 lower-cost monitors to its reference stations, offering extensive citywide air quality data.
Here's how China is going green | World Economic Forum
2018年4月26日 · China has taken steps to dismantle coal-fired power plants, reduce overall emission levels and cut particulate-matter emission rates. Huge progress has been made on air quality, and there are now fewer smog days in China’s largest cities.
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.
Which country has the worst air pollution? Clue: it's not China
But while China undoubtedly still has work to do, the world's second largest economy has made huge strides in improving its air quality. Last year, in the quarter ending 30 September, China was the largest centre of investment in the world for renewable energy, with $26.7 billion - twice that of the second largest, the United States. In 2014 ...