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On March 2, 2007, China’s State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), the Government of Norway and the World Bank staged a “Call for a Green China,” a unique environmental-cultural event held at the Poly Theater in Beijing. The event brought together Chinese and Western musicians, dramatists, and filmmakers in a remarkable East-meets-West celebration of the importance of environmental protection. More

The cultural event took place in the evening of a SEPA-Norwegian-World Bank conference to review a new  multi-year, multi-sector study of both the health and non-health costs of air and water pollution in China. The study estimates these physical and economic costs as reflected in the pollution-related disease burden, pollution-exacerbated water scarcity, wastewater irrigation, fisheries loss, crop loss, and material damage. It also includes findings of household surveys in Chongqing and Shanghai, for example, that gauged people's willingness to pay for improvements in air and water pollution that would reduce health costs.  More