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		<title>The building blocks of change for cleaner air: Insights from Pakistan’s brick industry </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simran Silpakar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 05:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resilient economies and landscapes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black carbon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brick kilns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gender disparities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zigzag kilns]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As urbanisation accelerates across the Hindu Kush Himalaya, the brick industry - vital yet highly polluting - faces urgent calls for reform. ICIMOD, with partners, is leading efforts to promote cleaner, more efficient technologies like zigzag kilns, while addressing social challenges in the sector. With over 11,000 kilns converted in Punjab, Pakistan, and cross-provincial learning underway in Sindh, this transformation offers a scalable model for climate action, healthier communities, and safer livelihoods across South Asia. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kathmandu&#039;s pre-monsoon air pollution: Propelled by regional emissions, exacerbated by local meteorological conditions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Suresh Pokhrel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every year, in the pre-monsoon season (March - May), the Kathmandu valley experiences a double burden of exposure to high levels of forest fire (smoke) and air pollution. This year, too, was no different with the situation escalating toward its worst during the last week of March and the beginning of April. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Burning Issue: Why it’s so urgent to stop burning agricultural residues in the Indo-Gangetic Plain and Himalayan Foothills of South Asia</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arshini Saikia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the incineration of agricultural residues long recognised as a key cause of South Asia’s air pollution crisis, it is time to embrace no-burn alternatives.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>From one of the most densely populated and polluted airsheds on Earth, calls for an ‘air pollution revolution’  </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Annie Dare]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 03:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of millions of people across the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) and Himalayan Foothills (HFH) are still breathing hazardous air ....]]></description>
		
		
		
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