CHINA LAUNCHES UNPRECEDENTED TRAFFIC CONTROLS TO TAME OLYMPICS AIR POLLUTION
August 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHINESE government launched unprecedented traffic restrictions in Beijing to tame the city's notorious air pollution ahead of August's Olympic Games. It has banned half of the city's 3.3 million cars from its streets for two months from July 20. Cars with odd-numbered and even-numbered license plates are banned on alternate days.
Beijing is also being assisted by the European Space Agency (ESA), which helped Britain's Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC) install a 'high resolution air quality forecasting system' at the Beijing ...
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