Departmental Impact

Support to local or regional government in local climate change disaster or risk early warning and monitoring

Support to Environmental Protection Department (EPD), govt. of the Punjab by monitoring of air pollutants and providing data to the EPD during smog periods in Lahore.

Tree Plantation and awareness walk was organized by the department of Environmental sciences in collaboration with Punjab forest department in the Gulab Devi Hospital, Lahore in April, 2018

A plantation campaign “Plant for tomorrow” along the Lahore canal was organized by the department.

A Monograph published by Dr. Muhammad Luqman provides details about how climate change and pollution is threatening biodiversity of marine diatoms. Dr. Luqman presented data about various pollution indicator diatom species emerging in polluted waters of Pakistan and are an early warning bio-indicators for deteriorating marine health.

 

A projects addressing the forecasting of smog in Lahore-Gujranwala-Faisalabad triangle in connection to seasonal and climate changes (Submitted by Dr. Syed Aziz Ur Rehman)