World Bank approved US$300m for Punjab clean-air programme in 2025.
Source
World Bank — https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2025/03/27/pakistan-world-bank-supports-punjab-s-smog-mitigation-action-plan-with-300-million-concessional-loan. Verified in source set / retroactive normalization pending.
What it proves
Shows scale of institutional/economic response required.
What it does not prove: Approval is a commitment to a single province's programme, not disbursement, spending or a measured fall in PM2.5, and its scale should be read against the US$500m national CDREP subprogram and the ~US$565.7bn NDC requirement. A financing figure records the price of one response, not the cost of the problem.
Memory hook: US$300m → one province's clean air, against a US$565.7bn climate bill
Rebuts the claim: "Air quality attracts talk but no financing" — a US$300m operation was approved in 2025 for Punjab's clean-air programme alone.