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August 28, 2024
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April 8, 2024
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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 PM2.5 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
Minnesota already exceeds new EPA air quality standards, data show
The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago estimates that the new threshold of 9 micrograms could add 6.6 million years, in aggregate, to Americans’ lives, particularly those living in regions of the country with bad air.
In the News
January 12, 2024
via NDTV
Has Delhi Reached The Environmental Limits Of Economic Growth?
People in NCR lose 11.9 years of their life because of air pollution, finds the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
In the News
January 9, 2024
via Wilson Center
Breathing India’s Air
A study from the Air Quality Life Index by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago posits that with current pollution levels, nearly 40% of India’s population will die 7.6 years earlier, writes Ambassador Mark A. Green, President & CEO of the Wilson Center.
In the News
December 24, 2023