Improving air quality at a local council or government level

Local councils and shires play a critical role in improving air quality by providing footpaths and cycleways, and maintaining parks and corridors, to help encourage the use of more sustainable forms of transport. They also enforce pollution laws relating to local business and domestic emissions.

The Let's Clear the Air awareness and information program was developed by the Office of Environment and Heritage to assist councils to increase community understanding of air quality at a local level.

Initiatives and resources to support local councils include:

• Air Education Resource Kit and workshops for educators are available.
• Sustainable Mobility Initiatives for Local Environments (SMILE)
  A program for local council planners and urban communities who want to promote more sustainable transport alternatives to the car in their local area.
• Local Government Air Quality Toolkit 
  Provides council officers with the information they need to better manage emissions from businesses and homes. It also covers crop stubble management practices in order to encourage communities to move away from open burning and reduce particle levels in agricultural areas.
• Local council officers can receive training to manage local wood smoke issues through wood smoke management workshops.
• Funding assistance for projects that encouraged people to take action and improve local air quality

These initiatives are part of the Clean Air Healthy, Communities program coordinated by the Office of Environment and Heritage and funded with a budget of $5 million over three years by the NSW Environmental Trust.

Local councils and shires play a critical role in improving air quality by providing footpaths and cycleways, and maintaining parks and corridors, to help encourage the use of more sustainable forms of transport. They also enforce pollution laws relating to local business and domestic emissions.

The Let's Clear the Air awareness and information program was developed by the Office of Environment and Heritage to assist councils to increase community understanding of air quality at a local level.

Initiatives and resources to support local councils include:

• Air Education Resource Kit and workshops for educators are available.
• Sustainable Mobility Initiatives for Local Environments (SMILE)
  A program for local council planners and urban communities who want to promote more sustainable transport alternatives to the car in their local area.
• Local Government Air Quality Toolkit 
  Provides council officers with the information they need to better manage emissions from businesses and homes. It also covers crop stubble management practices in order to encourage communities to move away from open burning and reduce particle levels in agricultural areas.
• Local council officers can receive training to manage local wood smoke issues through wood smoke management workshops.
• Funding assistance for projects that encouraged people to take action and improve local air quality

These initiatives are part of the Clean Air Healthy, Communities program coordinated by the Office of Environment and Heritage and funded with a budget of $5 million over three years by the NSW Environmental Trust.

The Office of Environment and Heritage provided $272,000 in funding for eleven local councils to run education projects that encouraged people to take action and improve local air quality.

The local projects, funded under the Let's Clear the Air initiative, ran across the Greater Metropolitan Region and regional NSW.

Find out more about the funded projects.

The Office of Environment and Heritage provided $272,000 in funding for eleven local councils to run education projects that encouraged people to take action and improve local air quality.

The local projects, funded under the Let's Clear the Air initiative, ran across the Greater Metropolitan Region and regional NSW.

Find out more about the funded projects.