Open Data South Africa Toolkit
  • Introduction
  • How can I activate a local data community?
  • How can government manage data for social impact?
  • Applications and tools
  • Open data resources
    • Working with spatial data in South Africa
    • Spatial, land and infrastructure data resources
    • Water, sanitation and climate data resources
    • Public finance and governance data resources
    • Company and private investment data resources
    • Healthcare data resources
    • Air quality data resources
    • Education data resources
    • Demographic and survey data resources
    • Police & defence data resources
    • Cultural and heritage data resources
    • Economy, employment, trade and industry data resources
    • Agriculture data resources
    • Media and democracy data resources
  • Activities and notices
    • Cultural Data Hackathon
    • Notice: Data extracts from NHI Bill
    • Notice: Data extracts from Land Reform Report
    • Challenge: Healthy Environment
    • Challenge: Spatial Transformation
    • Challenge: Accessible Healthcare
    • Campaign: Countering misinformation on social media
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Air quality data resources

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Last updated 2 years ago

There are three big pieces to using air quality data for social impact: (1) air quality data from government, industry and civil society monitoring stations, (2) atmospheric emissions licenses granted to specific organisations allowing them to pollute the air up to a certain level, and (3) legislation, regulations and case law. There are open data resources related to all of these below.

The South African Air Quality Information System () captures and visualises data from a large number of monitoring stations across the country.

You can view emissions license information for individual industry on the South African Atmospheric Emission Licensing and Inventory Portal (). In this way you can see what individual industry sites are allowed to emit.

Finally, you can view online versions of relevant national air quality xxxx and xxxx on [note: links are broken, looking for update. See PDF of NEMA ] and at a local level for some cities on .

legislation
regulations
SAFLII
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OpenByLaws
SAAQIS
SAAELIP