Reforms for a Cleaner, Healthier Environment in China

Hill, Sam

doi:10.1787/5k480c2dh6kf-en

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“…The development of China's characteristic economy has resulted in an increasing demand for energy and more serious environmental pollution and environmental pressure (Hill, 2013). In 2016, air quality of only 84 of the 338 cities in China reached the new air quality standard and 75.1% didn't reach the standard.…”

Section: The Current Situation Of Refined Oil Price Adjustment Mechanmentioning

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Research on the Impact of the Price Adjustment of Refined Oil on Air Quality: Taking Hebei Province as an Example

Zhao¹

2018

IJEF

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With marketization of the refined oil price, the Chinese government still uses price adjustments of refined oil to control air pollution. In this paper, an event study analysis is used to investigate the impact of refined oil price adjustment on air quality of eleven cities in Hebei Province. It is found that the impact of increases in refined oil price is larger than the impact of decreases. This implies an improvement of air quality. And the higher the price increases, the larger the impact is on air quality. Hoverer, refined oil price adjustments are generally not too large, it suggests that suspension of price adjustment of refined oil is not a viable method to improve the air quality. Other policies such as raising vehicle emission standards and fuel quality may be considered.

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Section: The Current Situation Of Refined Oil Price Adjustment Mechanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the Impact of the Price Adjustment of Refined Oil on Air Quality: Taking Hebei Province as an Example

Zhao¹

2018

IJEF

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“…It is widely believed that the current levy rate of SO 2 emission is less than the marginal abatement cost of SO 2 , and hence insufficient to stimulate abatement to the necessary levels(Schreifels et al 2012, Zhang 2013. We can see that the appropriate pricing of emission is the cornerstone for both mechanisms(Hill 2013). Unfortunately, in practice, such information is rarely readily available to the regulator, which greatly hinders the success of these market-based emission control policies.Based on the U.S.…”

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A method for analyzing pollution control policies: Application to SO 2 emissions in China

Zhang

2015

Energy Economics

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Diesel exhaust rapidly degrades floral odours used by honeybees

Girling

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Farthing

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Honeybees utilise floral odours when foraging for flowers; we investigated whether diesel exhaust pollution could interrupt these floral odour stimuli. A synthetic blend of eight floral chemicals, identified from oilseed rape, was exposed to diesel exhaust pollution. Within one minute of exposure the abundances of four of the chemicals were significantly lowered, with two components rendered undetectable. Honeybees were trained to recognise the full synthetic odour mix; altering the blend, by removing the two chemicals rendered undetectable, significantly reduced the ability of the trained honeybees to recognize the altered odour. Furthermore, we found that at environmentally relevant levels the mono-nitrogen oxide (NOx) fraction of the exhaust gases was a key facilitator of this odour degradation. Such changes in recognition may impact upon a honeybee's foraging efficiency and therefore the pollination services that they provide.

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Reforms for a Cleaner, Healthier Environment in China

Cited by 6 publications

References 54 publications

Research on the Impact of the Price Adjustment of Refined Oil on Air Quality: Taking Hebei Province as an Example

Research on the Impact of the Price Adjustment of Refined Oil on Air Quality: Taking Hebei Province as an Example

A method for analyzing pollution control policies: Application to SO 2 emissions in China

Diesel exhaust rapidly degrades floral odours used by honeybees

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