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AQLI: new data reveals little progress globally in reducing air pollution over the last two decades

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Produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), the AQLI is based on frontier research by EPIC’s director Michael Greenstone that quantified the causal relationship between human exposure to air pollution and reduced life expectancy. —Michael Greenstone. China began a “war against pollution” in 2013.

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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To introduce biodiversity teaching materials in Bangladesh's elementary curriculum with the intention to raise public awareness. Environment-Education seminar of Energy in Yokkaichi University. Ashida River Stream-side Learning Hut: an Ashida River clean-up project. Conservation International Japan.

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Study of emissions from CNG- and gasoline-fueled autorickshaws suggests measurements and data, not assumptions, should drive policy

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Although the two-stroke engines examined in this study were all CNG-fueled, other studies suggest that two-stroke engines fueled with gasoline or LPG (another popular “clean fuel” in India) have similarly high PM 2.5 , CO and THC EFs. The mean fuel-based PM 2.5 emission factor (mean (95% confidence interval)) for CNG-2S (14.2 g kg -1 (6.2-26.7))

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Study finds economic losses due to health burdens caused by in-car PM2.5 exposure inversely proportional to per capita GDP

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Some of the world’s cities suffer disproportionate economic losses because of the health consequences of in-car air pollution, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers at the University of Surrey (UK). Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) set out to investigate whether the amount of PM 2.5

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Drivers from the world’s poorest cities who keep their windows down are exposed to 80% more air pollution

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Car users from the world’s least affluent cities are exposed to a disproportionate amount of in-car air pollution because they rely heavily on opening their windows for ventilation, according to a new global study led by researchers at the University of Surrey. —Professor Prashant Kumar, Director of GCARE at the University of Surrey.

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. India and Bangladesh come in near the bottom of the rankings, with Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nepal rounding out the bottom five.

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