With pollution crossing borders, it's time for both countries to finally take a joint plan to tackle the crisis together more seriously.
With pollution crossing borders, it's time for both countries to finally take a joint plan to tackle the crisis together more seriously.A boy rides past as smoke billows from a burning garbage dump, in Lahore on November 1, 2024. / Photo: AFPhave fallen sick
Both sides also face the common challenge of stubble burning in their respective Punjab provinces. This occurs when farmers set fire to crop debris,The stakes are increasingly high this year. For instance, in order for New Delhi to curb vehicular emissions and smog, it would needVehicles drive on a highway on a polluted smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, November 7, 2024 .
Given that deteriorating air quality carries considerable economic and health costs for both countries, they have a shared interest in promoting anti-smog efforts.So what could an effective pollution mitigation strategy look like? The World Bank-backed Science Policy Dialogue offers some clues.crisis goes from hazardous to beyond index. We need air quality management at the airshed level in the Punjabs. We also…their spread across borders.
In recent years, air pollution has become an existential issue for people in India. In 2021, it is believed to have killed 2.1 million people.
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