Green recovery or pollution rebound? Evidence from air pollution of China in the post-COVID-19 era.

ABSTRACT: Under the strict control measures, China has achieved phased victory in combating with the COVID-19, production activities have gradually returned to normal. This paper examined whether air pollution was rebounded or realized green recovery in the post-COVID-19 era with a dataset of weather normalized pollutant concentrations using difference-in-differences models. Results showed that air pollution experienced a significant decline due to the wide range of control measures. With entering the post-epidemic period, air pollution raised due to the orderly production resumption. Specifically, production resumption increased the PM_2.5 concentrations of lockdown cities and non-lockdown cities by 43.2% (22.3 μg/m³) and 35.9% (17.3 μg/m³) compared with that in the

SUBMITTER: Feng T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9513343 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature