Regulating Air Pollution and Enforcing Environmental Law

The brief ‘Regulating Air Pollution and Enforcing Environmental Law’ points that though the right to clean air has been acknowledged and given adequate legal protection in Pakistan, the policy directives have limited practical application owing to significant implementation gaps. Ambiguities in law, complex regulatory regime, inadequate and irregular monitoring of data, weak oversight and regulatory compliance, limited accessibility to ETs, and budgetary constraints facing the protection agencies, have collectively resulted in minimal efforts for addressing the problem. All these problems are inter-linked in nature and have simultaneously aggravated the problem.