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Air pollution regulations over last decade in Chinese city has halved health costs

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Results appear in an open access paper in the journal Environment International. As a result, concentrations of particulate matter (PM 10 ) declined by more than half, from 196 µg/m 3 in 2001 to 89 µg/m 3 in 2010, as measured at eight sites throughout the city. The cost of premature death due to air pollution decreased by 3.83

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Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

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The country had undergone the biggest urban expansion in the period, between 2001 and 2018, its BUA increase accounted for 47.5% Breakdown of the 841 large cities by country income-levels: 353 cities (42.0%) from high-income countries (e.g. The findings also revealed rapid urbanization of large cities in China in the last two decades.

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Johnson Controls to supply AGM batteries to Chery Jaguar Land Rover in China; introducing 48V micro hybrid system

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Separately, the company will debut to the China market its 48-volt Micro Hybrid battery demonstration module ( earlier post ) at the 15 th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition (Auto Shanghai 2013). The company has now introduced the Micro Hybrid battery to the North American, European and Chinese markets.

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ICCT study finds that transitioning to low-GWP MAC refrigerants in China could avoid up to US$150B in costs

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Among the findings of the report, “HFC-134a phase-out in the Chinese light-duty motor vehicle sector”, was that, considering the social cost of CO 2 e, up to 1 trillion RMB in costs (US$150 billion) required to address climate change could be avoided through 2050 by transitioning to low-GWP alternative MACs. Background.

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U-M and Shanghai Jiao Tong University fund new round of 6 energy and biomedical projects; Li-S batteries

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Goal: To enable broader use of biofuels in advanced internal combustion engines. and Chinese governments, as well as from industry. In 2001, U-M became the first non-Chinese academic institution approved to offer graduate engineering degrees in China, at SJTU.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. Though this was before Apple’s 2001 iPod made these devices popular worldwide, a number of MP3 players of varied quality were already on the market in the late 1990s.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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After the Chinese Central Bank unexpectedly devalued the Yuan by ~2 percent against the US$, bets that the Saudis would be forced to abandon the peg spiked. One can imagine, then, the panic in Riyadh and Moscow when they contemplated the implications of the Chinese Central Bank’s decision to devalue the Yuan by ~2 percent against the U.S.

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