Legislation, plans, and policies for prevention and control of air pollution in China: achievements, challenges, and improvements

Global Association of Air Pollution and Cardiorespiratory Diseases: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Investigation of Modifier Variables

“…12 Governments and health organizations have implemented regulations to reduce air pollution levels to protect human health. [13][14][15][16] The WHO assessed air pollution data from more than 3000 cities worldwide and found that half of the cities in high-income countries and one third of those in low-and middle-income countries reduced air pollution levels by more than 5% between 2011 and 2016. All of these cities have addressed air pollution with the implementation of policies in sectors such as transport, energy, or urban planning.…”

Updated SO<sub>2</sub> emission estimates over China using OMI/Aura observations

“…observations have recently become an important information source for the atmospheric state, not 10 only of the academic community, but also by public authorities and international environmental 11 agencies (Streets et al, 2013; Lu and Liao, 2016). Recent reductions of the two major pollutants emitted 12 mainly by industrial sources, nitrogen and sulphur dioxide, have already successfully been observed 13 and quantified in a usable manner from space-born instruments over China , 14 Liu et al, 2015.…”

Decomposing Air Pollutant Emissions in Asia: Determinants and Projections

“…The share of coal-fired power plants equipped with sulfur scrubbers, for example, increased from 10% in 2005 to 85% in 2015, and nearly 1.5% of GDP in China has been spent on investments in pollution control over this period. However, the overall policy framework suffered from numerous flaws and deficiencies [23,35] and did not prevent the repeated haze pollution crisis in 2013 and beyond [36,37].…”