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Paris goes car-less for a day in bid to cut pollution

Pretty but noisy Paris, its gracious Old World buildings blackened by exhaust fumes, is going car-less for a day.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo presided over Sunday’s "day without cars," two months before the city hosts the global summit on climate change.

The symbolic initiative is aimed at showing that air pollution from traffic — a prime source in Paris — must be reduced worldwide and capitals must take concrete measures to shrink their carbon footprint.

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