Acting Globally while Thinking Locally: Is the Global Environment Protected by Transport Emission Control Programs?

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  • Gunnar S. Eskeland
  • Jian Xie
چکیده

Locally motivated air quality programs have only minor collateral benefits for the global climate. If agencies with global and local agendas did business together, then individuals and firms — and even cities — would act globally when thinking locally, and one would see greater synergy.

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تاریخ انتشار 1998