Lahore’s smog crisis: A regional approach

Ali Habib (Managing Partner at Hima Verte and former Director General of WWF Pakistan)

Sanval Nasim (Assistant Professor of Economics, LUMS)

Saif Anjum (Secretary, Environment Protection Department, Government of Punjab

Santosh Harish (Associate Director of Research (India) Rafay Alam, Environmental lawyer and activist, and co-founder of Saleem, Alam & Co., a law firm, moderated the session.

  • Posted On: December 13, 2017
  • Event Time: 3:30 - 5:00 pm
  • Event Date: 13th Dec 2017
  • Event Venue: CDPR, Lahore

Consortium for Development Policy Research (CDPR) hosted its eighteenth Lahore Policy Exchange talk on Lahore’s smog crisis: A regional approach. November in Lahore ushers a month-long period of smog in the city, sometimes referred to as its “fifth season”. Crop stubble burning in Punjab and industrial air pollution form a haze over the city that limits the line of sight and makes it toxic to inhale. This problem isn’t only limited to Lahore: Satellite images reveal a gray corridor of smog hugging the Himalayas and affecting other major cities along its path.

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