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Articles | Volume 21, issue 10
Articles | Volume 21, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8313-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8313-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 21, issue 10
Opinion
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31 May 2021
Opinion |  | 31 May 2021

Opinion: Gigacity – a source of problems or the new way to sustainable development

Markku Kulmala, Tom V. Kokkonen, Juha Pekkanen, Sami Paatero, Tuukka Petäjä, Veli-Matti Kerminen, and Aijun Ding

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The eastern part of China as a whole is practically a gigacity with 650 million inhabitants. The gigacity, with its emissions, processes in the pollution cocktail and numerous feedbacks and interactions, has a crucial and big impact on regional air quality and on global climate. A large-scale research and innovation program is needed to meet the interlinked grand challenges in this gigacity and to serve as a platform for finding pathways for sustainable development of the globe.
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