Controlling Pollution of Air

Reduction of air pollution (PM 2.5) in Beijing, China

The environmental challenge of pollution has been at the top of the agenda in any conferences where the environmental conservation is the theme. There are various categories of pollution that are experienced and one of the major one, and sadly the fasted growing and dangerous, is air pollution. There are various cities that are considered worse off in terms of air pollution and Beijing, China happens to be one of the leading cities in air pollution.

Over the years, there has been a serious problem of air pollution within Beijing, with some levels going so high that the reach the 151-200 air quality index (AQI) such that the residents of these areas have to use masks (U.S. Department of State, 2014 Mission China: Beijing). The main sources of pollution within this city have been noted over time to be exhaust from the more than 5 million vehicles that fill the city each day, the continued burning of coal in the areas neighboring Beijing, the dust storms that approach the city from the North as well as the dust from the local construction that goes on within the city (South China Morning Post, 2014). From the fog that covered the city in 2013, there have been some measures from the government to try and curb the menace but more needs to be done through the measures proposed below.

Mun S.H. & Jorgenson D.W., (2008). Greening China: Market-based policies for air-pollution control http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/09/greening-china-market-solutions

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