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Hunan’s first Pollution Information Transparency Index

By on August 16, 2012 in Sights

This video features Green Hunan, a non-government, non-profit organization located in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province. Green Hunan worked with the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) last year in a first attempt to develop a city-level Pollution Information Transparency Index (PITI) for a total of 14 major cities in Hunan.  You can see [...]

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Ningbo’s Blue and Transparent Skies

By on August 12, 2012 in Sights

Ningbo’s Blue and Transparent Skies

Ningbo, a seaport city in the northeast of Zhejiang province in China’s more developed Southeast region, has come in first in the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs Pollution Information Transparency Index (PITI) ranking for the last two years in a row.  Because of their stellar performance on the PITI, I thought it’d be worth paying [...]

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Chinese NGO releases Air Quality Transparency Index

By on January 31, 2011 in Air quality, China, Data, Indices

The Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) and Renmin University School of Law recently published the first version of what they’ve deemed the Air Quality Transparency Index (AQTI; available in Chinese only for now).  Building off of similar indices aimed to gauge the availability and access of environmental information, such as the Pollution Information Transparency [...]

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