Home › News ›

San Diego Dirtier than China

Posted by: franny.ritchie
Thanks to: Franny Ritchie
11 January 2010 - 6:00am

In a new working paper called “The Greenness of China: Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development,” Siqi Zheng, Rui Wang, Edward L. Glaeser, and Matthew E. Kahn rank 74 Chinese cities in terms of their household carbon footprints.

"So just how far apart are residential emissions in the U.S. and China? As the authors write:

Even in the dirtiest city (Daqing), a standardized household produces only one-fifth of that in America’s greenest city (San Diego)."

Full Story: China’s Greenest Cities, and Its Brownest: No Match for San Diego
Source: Freakonomics Blog, January 6, 2010
»

Comments

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Ummm...

Submitted by JayinPortland on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 04:55.

Just curious...

When did San Diego become America's "Greenest City"?

Talk about not being able to see the forest for the trees...

Bookmark and Share
“
There are limits to the amount of pollution the environment can absorb without reducing ecosystem services and impairing both human health and the sustainability of our economy.
”