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Black Smoke in China and Its Climate Effects

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  • David G. Streets

    (Decision and Information Sciences Division, DIS/900 Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 USA)

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The emission of fine carbonaceous particles in China is a serious threat to human health, ecological systems, and regional and global climate regimes. China is thought to release about 20 percent of the global black carbon through the combustion of coal and biofuels without adequate particle controls. The household and industrial sectors are mainly responsible, but the country's growing transportation sector is a concern for the future. The economic cost of damage from black carbon likely exceeds the cost of controlling emissions by several fold, but as yet such costs have not been quantified. Copyright (c) 2006 The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • David G. Streets, 2005. "Black Smoke in China and Its Climate Effects," Asian Economic Papers, MIT Press, vol. 4(2), pages 1-23, Spring/Su.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:asiaec:v:4:y:2005:i:2:p:1-23
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    1. Wing Thye Woo, 2007. "The Challenges of Governance Structure, Trade Disputes and Natural Environment to China's Growth," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 49(4), pages 572-602, December.
    2. Rashesh Shrestha, 2019. "Early Life Exposure to Air Pollution, Cognitive Development, and Labor Market Outcome," Asian Economic Papers, MIT Press, vol. 18(2), pages 77-95, Summer.
    3. Woo, Wing Thye, 2011. "China's economic growth engine: The likely types of hardware failure, software failure and power supply failure," BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2011, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).
    4. John Knight, 2015. "The Principal-Agent Problem, Economic Growth, Subjective Wellbeing and Social Instability: China’s Effective but Flawed Governance," Economics Series Working Papers 758, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.

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