Environment News Service: The World Bank has approved a grant to China of more than US$18 million to support the government's efforts to ease traffic congestion and cut greenhouse gas emissions in large cities.
Private car ownership and usage are rapidly increasing in China, plunging many large Chinese cities deep into clouds of polluted air and greenhouse gas emissions, made worse by growing traffic congestion.
The grant from the Global Environment Facility`s Large City Congestion and Carbon Reduction Project aims...