KARACHI: Researchers on Monday called for Pakistan to move from policy ambition to time-bound, financed implementation of the National Clean Air Policy (NCAP).
The call was issued by Fair Finance Pakistan (FFP) and the University of California’s Davis Air Quality Research Centre (AQRC) in their policy review titled ‘Air Pollution: A Solvable Problem — Findings and Recommendations for the National and Punjab Clean Air Policies’.
In a statement issued on the occasion of the seventh International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, the partners stressed that “clean-air finance” was not synonymous with broad green investment, and that public and private capital should support technologies and transition measures that demonstrably reduce population exposure to PM2.5 and emissions of particulate matter and its precursors.
PM2.5 refers to tiny airborne particles or droplets with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less.
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