Category: China

About EDF’s Global Clean Air Initiative

The problem: Around the world, nine out of ten people breathe unhealthy air. Air pollution is now the biggest environmental risk for early death, responsible for as many an estimated ...

Cangzhou, China

Data-Driven Accurate Air Quality Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement The Cangzhou Clean Air Pilot Project in China reveals how innovative air quality monitoring (using a fleet of 50 taxis) could pinpoint ...

Reducing Pollution Through Better Data

Cities and local governments are at the forefront of cutting air pollution, using new policy levers to limit dirty vehicle traffic and improve zoning rules to address environmental injustice. Local ...

Finding Pollution Sources

While hyperlocal monitoring identifies pollution hotspots, source apportionment finds its cause. Because pollutants move through the air, they behave differently depending on wind, temperature and precipitation. By examining the impacts ...

Data to Action

Precision data fosters meaningful change for clean air While ambient air pollution monitoring can give us a sense of a region’s overall air quality, new sensor technologies and data analyses ...