Mitigation In Beijing Essay
With reference to Beijing, assess the short term and long term effectiveness of the mitigation measures taken to reduce smog (20).
Consider air quality management, traffic controls, vehicle emission controls, zoning of industry and increased use of public transport.
Pollution causes a huge concern to people in Beijing. At the moment Beijing’s pollution level is well over the safe level that the World Health Organization has set, its level is almost 22 times above. Poor air quality caused by pollution is a huge health issues to residents, it could causes cancers and other bad disease but, not only that, it also creates smog around Beijing. Efforts have been made by the governments and the residents in Beijing to reduce pollution and smog both in short term and long term.
Main reasons for pollution
- Burning coal = this was the main cause of …show more content…
This could have been easily avoided but due to deforestation it got worse.
- Vehicles fumes = number of cars in Beijing is huge due to a massive population and increase in wealth this means green house gases such as CO2 and CO (carbon monoxide) has increased
Olympics
(Government policies and solutions for pollution in Beijing)
People from other parts of the world were concerned that due to Beijing’s poor air quality and pollution players might not perform properly. To solve this problem and concern Chinese governments has came up with some policies to reduce pollution levels.
Coal burning
- Shutting down large factories and coal-fired power stations for few days to stop emissions. (This already happened once in September 1999, factories were closed for a week)
- Improve the quality of coal so it creates less emission.
- Efforts has been made by the residents to replace coal burning to gas = 85% homes have has stoves and 15% of population replaced coal burning heating to gas
Consider air quality management, traffic controls, vehicle emission controls, zoning of industry and increased use of public transport.
Pollution causes a huge concern to people in Beijing. At the moment Beijing’s pollution level is well over the safe level that the World Health Organization has set, its level is almost 22 times above. Poor air quality caused by pollution is a huge health issues to residents, it could causes cancers and other bad disease but, not only that, it also creates smog around Beijing. Efforts have been made by the governments and the residents in Beijing to reduce pollution and smog both in short term and long term.
Main reasons for pollution
- Burning coal = this was the main cause of …show more content…
This could have been easily avoided but due to deforestation it got worse.
- Vehicles fumes = number of cars in Beijing is huge due to a massive population and increase in wealth this means green house gases such as CO2 and CO (carbon monoxide) has increased
Olympics
(Government policies and solutions for pollution in Beijing)
People from other parts of the world were concerned that due to Beijing’s poor air quality and pollution players might not perform properly. To solve this problem and concern Chinese governments has came up with some policies to reduce pollution levels.
Coal burning
- Shutting down large factories and coal-fired power stations for few days to stop emissions. (This already happened once in September 1999, factories were closed for a week)
- Improve the quality of coal so it creates less emission.
- Efforts has been made by the residents to replace coal burning to gas = 85% homes have has stoves and 15% of population replaced coal burning heating to gas