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<\/a> ** #3 When government policy works, part II: The Black Cloud. <\/strong>For as long as many of us at Enterprise have been alive, Cairenes have choked each fall on the acrid \u201cblack smoke\u201d that blankets our fair city. The cause? The burning of straw by rice farmers. But this autumn has been particularly smoke-free, and you can thank a government program that gave traders an EGP 50 per-ton incentive to buy the straw from farmers, Reuters reports<\/a>, citing remarks by Mohamed Salah, head of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. The straw is then sold as animal feed, the newswire reports, though we have primarily seen it used in waste-to-energy programs.<\/p>\n

This is the second time this week we\u2019ve found evidence that smart policy can make a difference. <\/strong>The government\u2019s white cab program, which pulled ancient taxis off the roadways by providing subsidized finance for new vehicles, slashed Egypt\u2019s carbon dioxide emissions by 310k tonnes in 2013-2017, according to a World Bank report<\/a> we noted on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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