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The cost of controlling air pollution in China?
A question from the PACE listserv:
“We see a lot of attention is on urban air pollution in China these days with Beijing Olympics around the corner. Do you know, officially or unofficially in the papers, roughly how much they are spending on air pollution control per year in China (in some of the cities like Beijing)? What are the major activities that they are funding? Has anyone done such an estimate?”
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Erica
Erica
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Another question is how much does air pollution, and other pollution cost? This is obviously a very sticky question, given issues of measurement and what we mean by “cost” and “pollution.” I posted on this over at Treehugger when China announced in November it would spend 1.3 percent of its GDP to clean up the environment. That is hardly enough if you believe the Green GDP estimate made a few years ago, which put the cost of pollution at over 3 pc of GDP.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/11/how_many_billions.php
Cheers,
Alex