{"id":1218,"date":"2016-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/aboutus\/1218\/media-update-beijing-pm2-5-carcinogen-concentration-falls-as-less-coal-burnt\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T08:16:11","slug":"media-update-beijing-pm2-5-carcinogen-concentration-falls-as-less-coal-burnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/publication\/1218\/media-update-beijing-pm2-5-carcinogen-concentration-falls-as-less-coal-burnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Update: Beijing PM2.5 carcinogen concentration falls as less coal burnt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Beijing, 14 November, 2016 \u2013 In 2013 Greenpeace East Asia, in collaboration with the Public Health Faculty of Peking University, reported that PM2.5 in Beijing contained levels of the heavy metal and group 1 carcinogen, arsenic, 3.85 times higher than the national standard.[1] The report also found worryingly high levels of two other carcinogens, cadmium and lead.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>New research by Greenpeace East Asia and the Beijing Environmental Mutagen Society shows that all three elements have fallen rapidly. Arsenic concentration levels fell by 90.4% and now meet the national standard.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe fall in heavy metals concentrations in PM2.5 in Beijing is directly linked to the closure of coal fired power plants around the city,\u201d said Greenpeace East Asia climate and energy campaigner, Dong Liansai.<\/p>\n\n<p>The burning of coal is the principle source for all three heavy metal elements in Beijing\u2019s air.[2] 84.6% of arsenic contained in coal enters the air during the process of burning coal.[3]<\/p>\n\n<p>Beijing\u2019s last operating coal power plant will be closed by the end of March 2017.[4]<\/p>\n\n<p>Given that all three elements are carcinogenic and a major risk to public health, other municipal governments around the country should learn from Beijing\u2019s policy of closing coal power plants and reducing coal consumption.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<table>\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"173\">\n<col width=\"122\">\n<col width=\"119\">\n<col width=\"116\"><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>Arsenic<\/td>\n<td>Lead<\/td>\n<td>Cadmium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Concentration, 2012-13<\/td>\n<td>23.08Ng\/m3<\/td>\n<td>244.10Ng\/m3<\/td>\n<td>4.20Ng\/m3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Concentration, 2015-16<\/td>\n<td>2.22Ng\/m3<\/td>\n<td>81.40Ng\/m3<\/td>\n<td>1.40Ng\/m3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rate of change<\/td>\n<td>-90.4%<\/td>\n<td>-66.7%<\/td>\n<td>-33.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>National standard<\/td>\n<td>6Ng\/m3<\/td>\n<td>500Ng\/m3<\/td>\n<td>5Ng\/m3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Notes to editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/publications\/reports\/climate-energy\/2013\/air-pollution-beijing-2013\/\">http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/publications\/reports\/climate-energy\/2013\/air-pollution-beijing-2013\/<\/a><br \/>[2] \u300a\u5317\u4eac\u57ce\u533a PM2. 5 \u4e2d\u81f4\u764c\u91cd\u91d1\u5c5e\u5b63\u8282\u53d8\u5316\u7279\u5f81\u53ca\u5176\u6765\u6e90 \u5206\u6790\u300b\uff0cEnvironmental Science, February 2014, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eastasia-stateless\/2019\/11\/91402c18-91402c18-w020150319582070511062.pdf\">https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eastasia-stateless\/2019\/11\/91402c18-91402c18-w020150319582070511062.pdf<\/a><br \/>[3] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemeta.com\/index.php\/HJKX\/article\/view\/324281\">http:\/\/www.sciencemeta.com\/index.php\/HJKX\/article\/view\/324281<\/a><br \/>[4] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjd.com.cn\/jx\/toutiao\/201610\/21\/t20161021_11041554.html\">http:\/\/www.bjd.com.cn\/jx\/toutiao\/201610\/21\/t20161021_11041554.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tom Baxter<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">International Communications Officer, Greenpeace East Asia<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"mailto:tom.baxter@greenpeace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tom.baxter@greenpeace.org<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ndocument.write(dc('Eoi_1', '14_73_66_7B_3A_71_77_75_71_64_7A_71_71_66_73_54_66_71_60_6C_75_76_3A_79_7B_60'));\/\/--><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">+86 1881 1344 861&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n\tBeijing, 14 November, 2016 &#8211; In 2013 Greenpeace East Asia, in collaboration with the Public Health Faculty of Peking University, reported that PM2.5 in Beijing contained levels of the heavy metal and group 1 carcinogen, arsenic, 3.85 times higher than the national standard.[1] The report also found worryingly high levels of two other carcinogens, cadmium and lead.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,22],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-energy","tag-coal","tag-reduce-air-pollution","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/2200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}