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PAKISTAN IS SICK, HELP YOUR COUNTRY BY DOING PLANTATION
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In addition, the report also highlights countries such as China, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh that have increasing trends in PM2.5 exposure. However, while China has made some improvement in tackling air pollution, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have experienced the steepest increases in air pollution levels since 2010 and now present the highest sustained PM2.5 concentrations.

In Pakistan, without any government intervention or even social awareness campaigns informing citizens how to protect themselves from the toxic smog the past few years have seen an extraordinary rise in air pollution, particularly during the onset of winter. According to a report by Lancet, a medical journal, approximately 22 percent of deaths in Pakistan each year are attributed to air pollution.

This led Abid Omar, a young entrepreneur based in Karachi, to initiate the Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI), which provides real-time data on air quality in the country. Having lived in Beijing, China, for a few years, Omar realized how imperative publicly available data was in instigating a much-needed call to action regarding China s air pollution issue.

I saw how [it] helped change the conversation there; how the Beijing government first claimed ignorance, then started monitoring air quality and making the data accessible to the public, he said. And finally, [how they] then started to implement policies that are trailblazing for excellence in environmental governance.