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September 25, 2023
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April 24, 2024
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April 22, 2024
Making Clean Air an Earth Day Priority
This Earth Day is a special one for the global environmental movement, as it coincides with ongoing negotiations to eliminate plastic pollution from the planet.
In the News
April 15, 2024
via Newage
Holidays bring no respite from air pollution
According to the Chicago University study titled Air Quality Life Index (AQLI), air pollution is the second-largest threat to human health for people living in Bangladesh, behind only cardiovascular diseases.
In the News
April 8, 2024
via The Week
The choking lungs of both Punjabs
An Air Quality Life Index study suggests that since 1998, average annual particulate pollution has increased by 20 per cent, cutting 0.9 years from the lives of an average Pakistani over these years.
In the News
April 4, 2024
via Al Jazeera
Why does South Asia have the world’s worst air pollution?
The 2023 AQLI Report found that an average Pakistani would live for 3.9 years longer if air quality met the WHO guidelines.
In the News
April 1, 2024
via Yabiladi
Moroccan coal plant among Africa’s top air polluters
According to the Air Quality Life Index assessment, permanently reducing 2.5PM concentrations from the 2021 level to the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m3 could improve the average life index by up to 1.3 years in Egypt, 0.4 years in Morocco, and less than 0.1 years in Algeria.
In the News
March 25, 2024
via Times of Karachi
Pakistan among world’s top three smoggiest countries of 2023
Christa Hasenkopf, director of EPIC's Clean Air Program at the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute, highlights the lack of public air quality monitoring in 39% of countries.
In the News
March 1, 2024
via Rest Of World
Riders In The Smog
The 2023 Air Quality Life Index, carried out by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, found that air pollution shortens lives by an average of 11.9 years in New Delhi, 8.1 years in Dhaka, and 7.5 years in Lahore.
In the News
February 23, 2024
via Grist
Climate change is undoing decades of progress on air quality
“[Air pollution] is a political and social issue that has to be tackled at a national level...The size of the impact on life expectancy in two relatively geographically nearby areas can be surprising,” said Christa Hasenkopf, the director of the Clean Air Program at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
In the News
February 12, 2024