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