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Reduce Air Pollution

Air pollution is a severe problem – one that we ignore at the risk of our health and our economy.

Lung cancer is now the most common cancer in China, and heart disease is the country's second-biggest cause of death. Smog hangs heavy over Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, where children grow up with asthma and other respiratory illnesses. Every year, Hong Kong loses over HK$2 billion due to health costs and lost productivity.

These problems all go back to air pollution, whose consequences are long-term, sometimes fatal and almost always borne by the public.

Much of the time, air pollution is invisible, but its effects are not. Millions of people in China and Hong Kong are breathing dirty air – with terrible health consequences, from respiratory disease to strokes, lung cancer, and heart disease.

China's economy has skyrocketed, but at a price. Power plants, factories and heavy industries are all belching out black, dirty air, at the cost of our health and our environment. According to the World Health Organization, in China more than 650,000 people die each year from diseases related to air pollution.

Greenpeace is one of the leading NGOs working on campaigns to reduce sources of air pollution in China and Hong Kong.

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Best of the rest: what we clicked on this week around the web

Best of the rest: what we clicked on this week around the web

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2012-02-10

Every Friday we round-up the links that picked up buzz on the internet. Most of them we also shared throughout the week on Facebook and Twitter . UN awards Greenpeace Amazon campaign director Paulo Adario, 'Forest Hero' . Read more >

Best of the rest: what we clicked on this week around the web

Best of the rest: what we clicked on this week around the web

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2012-02-03

Every Friday we round-up the links that picked up buzz on the internet. Most of them we also shared throughout the week on Facebook and Twitter . Beautiful bicycles that are made of bamboo . Learn how to make your own. (The... Read more >

The three types of masks that protect you from air pollution PM2.5

The three types of masks that protect you from air pollution PM2.5

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2011-12-06

Air pollution in Beijing recently has been absolutely shocking, as the above photo can attest. At too many points in the day levels have been exceeding the testing limits of the US Embassy readings (as seen at their Twitter ). When... Read more >

Meet Beijing's 12-year-old air pollution inspector

Meet Beijing's 12-year-old air pollution inspector

Feature Story | 2011-11-07 at 14:18

A recent news report on CCTV covered China's PM2.5 air pollution debate, featuring our climate and energy campaigner Zhou Rong, as well as a very cute 12-year-old volunteer air inspector in Beijing. Read more >

Cutting through the haze in China's air pollution debate

Cutting through the haze in China's air pollution debate

Feature Story | 2011-11-04 at 12:57

PM2.5 is a measurement of small particulate matter in the air, and until now its omission from official air quality readings has been a major hurdle in solving China's air pollution crisis. After all, how can you solve a crisis when according to... Read more >

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