Chinese Website To Expose Air Polluters – Justine Lau and Laura Dixon

From The Financial Times:

One of China’s leading environmental activists has launched a “name and shame” website that maps the locations of more than 4,000 air polluters in the country, including 40 multinational companies.

The move highlights the push by activists to put pressure on corporate polluters in China, which is expected to become the world’s largest carbon emitter this year. The Chinese-language China Air Pollution Map, published on Thursday, follows last year’s Water Pollution Map, a website that listed about 9,000 companies across the country, including multinationals such as Carlsberg , the Danish brewer. [Full Text]

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