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The article looks at efforts to impose emissions-trading systems in China, the largest carbon emitter on the planet, focusing on Chinese environmental policy.

Discusses urban air pollution in poor cities such as Taiyuan, in north-east China. Proposal of Taiyuan officials to use emissions trading in an attempt to achieve a 50 percent reduction in sulphur-dioxide output; The use of permits in the emissions-trading system in an effort to reduce pollution levels in the most economically efficient manner; Realization that pollution is bad for the economy; The growing environmental movements in many developing countries.