Abstract
Pakistan is embarking on its mega project CPEC, in partnership with China, which
is a part of the larger One Belt One Road project and it brings with it great promise
for both China and Pakistan. Due to the enormous planned development and
energy-generation activities, primarily through coal, the danger of damage to the
environment is equally enormous. Whereas China is moving away from coalbased energy and is implementing stricter pollution-control laws, Pakistan is
initiating such projects now, despite its international commitments, and that too
without strictly undertaking environmental assessments or without having a very
good history of implementing its environmental protection laws. If Pakistan does
not take timely action to ensure the prevention of environmental degradation, its
people could suffer greatly due to the resulting adverse effects to the environment;
the fallout of which could also impact the rest of the world.
Mehwish Qayyum Durani, Muhammad Bashir Khan. (2018) The Environmental Impact of The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): A Case Study, Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences, Volume-11, Issue-1.
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