Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2020

Nearly a quarter of the global population lives in four countries in South Asia that are among the world’s most polluted: Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. High pollution across the entirety of Bangladesh makes it the most polluted country in the world. —Michael Greenstone. China began a “war against pollution” in 2013.

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Pollution Global Bangladesh Nepal 243

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

The alternative scenario assumes that Asia’s fast-growing economies—the PRC, India, Indonesia, and Viet Nam—will fall into the middle income trap of slowing growth rates and stagnating income levels over the next 5 to 10 years. —Asia 2050.

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Asia Indonesia Financing Bangladesh 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) set out to investigate whether the amount of PM 2.5 Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) set out to investigate whether the amount of PM 2.5

Malawi 243

Malawi Pollution Ethiopia Tanzania 243

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

In general, high scorers exhibit long-standing commitments to protecting public health, preserving natural resources, and decoupling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from economic activity. India and Bangladesh come in near the bottom of the rankings, with Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nepal rounding out the bottom five.

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2018 Papua New Guinea Burundi Central African Republic 300