Difference between revisions of "Timeline of pollution in Beijing"
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| 1998 || || || Beijing begins to publish weekly air quality reports.<ref name="Improving Urban Air Quality in China: Beijing Case Study"/> | | 1998 || || || Beijing begins to publish weekly air quality reports.<ref name="Improving Urban Air Quality in China: Beijing Case Study"/> | ||
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| + | | 1999 || April 1 || || Beijing introduces mission standard for pollutants at double idle speed from vehicle with petrol engine.<ref name="Improving Urban Air Quality in China: Beijing Case Study"/> | ||
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| + | | 2001 || January 1 || || Beijing introduces emission standard for exhaust emissions from motorcycles and mopeds.<ref name="Improving Urban Air Quality in China: Beijing Case Study"/> | ||
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| + | | 2002 || March 1 || || Beijing introduces integrated emission standard of boilers pollutants.<ref name="Improving Urban Air Quality in China: Beijing Case Study"/> | ||
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| 2003 || || || Euro-II emission standards are implemented for new vehicles in Beijing.<ref name="Improving Urban Air Quality in China: Beijing Case Study"/> | | 2003 || || || Euro-II emission standards are implemented for new vehicles in Beijing.<ref name="Improving Urban Air Quality in China: Beijing Case Study"/> | ||
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| + | | 2003 || || Beijing adopts limits and measurement methods for exhaust smoke under lugdown test from agricultural vehicles, motorcycles and mopeds under steady-state loaded mode, exhaust pollutants from gasoline vehicles | ||
| + | under steady-state loaded mode, and exhaust smoke standard for diesel vehicle under lug-down test.<ref name="Improving Urban Air Quality in China: Beijing Case Study"/> | ||
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| + | | 2003 || April 1 || || Beijing adopts limits and measurement methods for exhaust pollutants from nonroad diesel engines.<ref name="Improving Urban Air Quality in China: Beijing Case Study"/> | ||
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| + | | 2003 || October 1 || Beijing adopts emission controls and limits for oil-gas from gas stations, emission controls and measurement standard for oil-gas from | ||
| + | fuel depots, and emission controls and measurement standard for oil-gas from | ||
| + | tank trucks.<ref name="Improving Urban Air Quality in China: Beijing Case Study"/> | ||
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| 2008 || || || Beijing holds the Olympic Games, and starts policy to eradicate cockroaches, flies, and mosquitoes in a bid to make the city cleaner and more “civilized.” <ref name="Beijing Urbanizes"/> | | 2008 || || || Beijing holds the Olympic Games, and starts policy to eradicate cockroaches, flies, and mosquitoes in a bid to make the city cleaner and more “civilized.” <ref name="Beijing Urbanizes"/> | ||
Revision as of 10:04, 13 May 2019
This is a timeline of FIXME.
Contents
Big picture
| Time period | Development summary |
|---|---|
| 1990s | Air pollution in Beijing becomes very severe.[1] |
Full timeline
| Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Beijing experiences photochemical smog in the summer.[2] | ||
| 1988 | Beijing’s municipal government maintains a preventative policy of eradicating the rodents, which would dramatically reduce rat numbers.[3] | ||
| 1998 | Beijing begins to publish weekly air quality reports.[1] | ||
| 1999 | April 1 | Beijing introduces mission standard for pollutants at double idle speed from vehicle with petrol engine.[1] | |
| 2001 | January 1 | Beijing introduces emission standard for exhaust emissions from motorcycles and mopeds.[1] | |
| 2002 | March 1 | Beijing introduces integrated emission standard of boilers pollutants.[1] | |
| 2003 | Euro-II emission standards are implemented for new vehicles in Beijing.[1] | ||
| 2003 | Beijing adopts limits and measurement methods for exhaust smoke under lugdown test from agricultural vehicles, motorcycles and mopeds under steady-state loaded mode, exhaust pollutants from gasoline vehicles
under steady-state loaded mode, and exhaust smoke standard for diesel vehicle under lug-down test.[1] | ||
| 2003 | April 1 | Beijing adopts limits and measurement methods for exhaust pollutants from nonroad diesel engines.[1] | |
| 2003 | October 1 | Beijing adopts emission controls and limits for oil-gas from gas stations, emission controls and measurement standard for oil-gas from
fuel depots, and emission controls and measurement standard for oil-gas from tank trucks.[1] | |
| 2008 | Beijing holds the Olympic Games, and starts policy to eradicate cockroaches, flies, and mosquitoes in a bid to make the city cleaner and more “civilized.” [3] | ||
| 2013 | As part pof a campaignm, Beijing starts phasing out coal-fired stoves in the city. Natural gas and other forms of clean energy are used to replace coal.[4] | ||
| 2017 | Average PM2.5 pollution level in Beijing remains 65% above the national standard – and six times above the World Health Organization guidelines.[3] |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 "Improving Urban Air Quality in China: Beijing Case Study". tandfonline.com. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ↑ Energy Futures and Urban Air Pollution: Challenges for China and the United States. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering, National Research Council, National Academy of Engineering, Policy and Global Affairs, Development, Security, and Cooperation, Committee on Energy Futures and Air Pollution in Urban China and the United States.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Beijing Urbanizes, and a Much-Loved Bird Vanishes From the City". sixthtone.com. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
- ↑ "Beijing, northern China hit by worst pollution this year". economictimes.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
