The City's Health Directorate, with the co-operation and assistance of its Environmental and Scientific Services divisions, has formulated an Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) for the City of Cape Town.
The draft AQMP and subsequent public participation process served as a framework for developing a year one Air Quality Management Plan for the City of Cape Town.
The City would like to take this opportunity to thank all interested and affected parties and organisations that have taken part in the process and who have offered comments.
Based on the comments received, the City has compiled a final ’Air Quality Management Plan for the City of Cape Town’. The plan contains 11 objectives to meet its commitment ’To be the city with the cleanest air in Africa’.
The objectives are further broken down into strategies and action plans in order to meet this commitment. This will be achieved by the formation of a number of multidisciplinary committees with role players from within, as well as outside Council.
The City of Cape Town has compiled a detailed Situation Assessment of Air Quality, which identifies the priority pollutants, sources, impact areas of air pollution, as well as current and possible future approaches to air quality management. The Situation Assessment must be used as a reference document and be read in conjunction with the plan at all times.
VISION, MISSION AND OBJECTIVES
AQMP vision: TO BE THE CITY WITH THE CLEANEST AIR IN AFRICA
AQMP mission: TO REDUCE THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF POOR AIR QUALITY ON THE CITIZENS OF CAPE TOWN ESPECIALLY DURING ’BROWN HAZE’ EPISODES
AQMP objectives:
- To formulate an air quality management system for the City of Cape Town
- To specify ambient air quality standards and targets for Cape Town
- To monitor priority pollutants which cause brown haze and affect human health
- To improve air quality in informal areas
- To enforce current and future legislation for air quality management
- To compile a comprehensive emissions inventory database for the City of Cape Town
- To control vehicle emissions in the City
- To consider air quality in land use and transport planning
- To determine the detrimental health effects of poor air quality on the population of the City of Cape Town
- To establish a comprehensive education and communication strategy for air quality management
- To periodically review the air pollution situation, report on progress and adjust and update strategies and objectives where needed
Link to the AQMP brochure below.
Air Quality Management Plan