Principal Investigator:
The objective of this project is to support Pakistan’s Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) through technical assistance to measure intra-urban variation in air pollution across Lahore; this is done using air quality sensors installed systematically across the city.
As part of the CCDR, the Poverty and Equity Global Practice at the World Bank is looking to assess socio-economic variation in vulnerability to disaster risk related to climate change. One important activity of the CCDR is to understand the distributional variation and impact of air pollution in Lahore. Air pollution is not only hazardous for public health, but is also an amplifier of other climate risks, such as flooding and heat waves. Despite being ranked regularly amongst the topmost polluted cities in the world, however, ground-level, hyper local air pollution data is not available for Lahore due to a lack of continuous, distributional air quality monitoring in the city.
The project involves the following activities:
Air Pollution, Air Quality, Disaster Risk, Climate Risks