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Air quality
Clean air programme
The Ministry promotes clean and healthy air for all of New Zealander’s by developing national policies and tools to maintain and, where necessary, improve air quality. These tools include:
- National environmental standards for air quality
- Good practice guidance
- Information on wood burners
- Incentives, research, and information on clean forms of home heating
- Monitoring and reporting on air quality
- Air Quality Indicators
- Research into air quality in New Zealand
- Reducing vehicle emissions
- Other related Ministry programmes.
The Ministry’s Clean Air programme aims to:
- maintain or enhance New Zealand’s air quality
- promote the importance of clean, clear air and the government's goals for air quality
- develop and debate approaches to sustainable air quality management;
- increase understanding of air quality and its effects on human health and the environment
- improve quality and consistency in monitoring and managing air quality in New Zealand.
For more information on these projects email air@mfe.govt.nz.
Last updated: 16 July 2009
