China?s pathways to synchronize the emission reductions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases: Pros and cons

As apanoramic overview of the multipronged national-scale regulations of China to synchronously decelerate climate change and improve air quality, this study pores through a constellation of China's strategies aimed to obtain coinstantaneous reductions in the emissions of atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gases (GHGs). These strategies, inclusive of afforestation and silviculture, ultra-low industrial emissions, energy structure reform, renewable energy development, household emission reductions, transportation emission control, and shutdown of cryptocurrency mining, have vouchsafed China new pragmatic dimensions in pursuit of its climate goals and have established a roadmap to bide time for the future. Here we show blow-by-blow the pros and cons of these pathways to illustrate the reasons why they best serve China's long-term targets and dovetail with China's geopolitical realities. Because of the interactions between air pollutants and GHGs, cooperatively reducing the emissions of both air pollutants and climate change gases have mutual benefits and are efficacious for the enhancement of air quality and mitigation of global warming.