Lahore ranked among cities with ‘extremely poor’ ozone levels

PARIS: Highlighting the close relationship between climate change and air pollution, a new analysis by the EU’s Copernicus Climate Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) has ranked Lahore among cities whose ozone levels are “extremely poor”. Heatwaves and wildfires combined with human-caused emissions this year to expose one third of the world’s population to extremely high levels of ozone pollution, said the report, released on Wednesday. When heat and sunlight react with airborne emissions from wildfires, vehicles and industry, they create ground-level ozone pollution. At this level, ozone is…