Xing, Jianwei; Hu, Zhiren; Xia, Fan; Xu, Jintao; Zou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
pollution mitigation. We study an afforestation program in the city of Beijing, which planted a total of 2 million <i>mu</i> of … greenery - roughly the size of Los Angeles - across the city over a decade. We conduct a remote-sensing audit of the program …, finding that it contributes to a substantial greening up of the city. This causes significant downwind air quality improvement …