During that two-year period, air quality monitoring stations in the province weren’t working because of a lack of funding and capacity, Alam said. Aslam said the government now has a team traveling around Lahore reading the city’s air quality monitors, with the data feeding into the city’s own air quality index. “By reducing greenhouse gases that cause air pollution you are also addressing climate change. Abid Omar, who founded the Pakistan Air Quality Initiative, a non-profit group that publishes data about air pollution and its health impacts, agreed that a broad approach is needed. “We have to reduce air pollution at the source, be it industry, agriculture, urban waste or transportation.

Source: The Express Tribune January 07, 2019 12:46 UTC