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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social

In numbers: How Beijing cleaned up its air theprogressplaybook.com/2025/05/12/i...

may 17, 2025, 8:45 am • 73 20

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Diego Froidmont @diegofroidmont.bsky.social

👍⚡️🎰🌱 “… local authorities instituted a city-wide lottery on license plates for anyone that wanted to purchase a new fossil fuel-burning car (…) Those wishing to buy an electric car, however, were able to obtain a plate more easily, encouraging citizens to switch to cleaner modes of transport.”

may 17, 2025, 10:28 am • 1 0 • view
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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social

anecdote: We got a souvenir book for a large town we visited there, and the photos of the skyline looked very odd. They had 'shopped in a blue sky. You could still see at the edges where they missed some of the real sky. If they can clean that up, we could do a whole lot more than we are doing!

may 17, 2025, 2:21 pm • 2 0 • view
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social

Aerosols - cc @leonsimons.bsky.social

may 17, 2025, 9:18 am • 2 0 • view
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social

Thanks! bsky.app/profile/leon...

may 17, 2025, 10:12 am • 5 0 • view
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social

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may 17, 2025, 10:38 am • 3 0 • view