Since Beijing hosted the 2008 summer Olympics 14 years ago, China has taken steps to improve the air quality in its cities, despite remaining the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
While the country has a long way to go, and continues to build the coal-fired power plants that contribute to the deadly pollution that is the leading cause of global warming, it has made a quantifiable improvement in the past decade.
Starting in 2014, when premier Li Keqiang declared a “war against pollution”, China’s Air Quality Monitoring Network has reported a 40 per cent reduction in the country’s emissions.
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