Air pollution can have local and regional impacts, such as ground-level ozone and wood smoke. It can also have wide-reaching, global effects, such as climate change and depletion of the ozone layer. Pollutants can be visible (for example, the brownish yellow colour of smog) or invisible. Learn more: About air pollution and the Ventilation Index. 

Source: Air - Province of British Columbia

Good air quality refers to clean, clear, unpolluted air. Air quality assessment involves a number of components from across the province that provide up-to-date monitoring data that can affect health or the environment. Learn more: 

• Air quality advisories 
• Air quality data by air zone 
• Air Quality Health Index across the province 

Source: Air - Province of British Columbia

Air quality management refers to all activities related to improving air quality and protecting human health and the environment from the harmful effects of air pollution. These include:

• Establishing goals using air quality objectives and standards
• Conducting air quality assessments through dispersion modelling 
• Air quality management 
• Air quality objectives and standards 
• Air quality dispersion modelling 
• Taking action to reduce air pollution improves the health of the province’s citizens, addresses the government’s air quality targets, preserves our environment and enhances our economic competitiveness.

Source: Air - Province of British Columbia 

For a listing of all digital air quality reports produced by the Province of BC, go to the air quality reports and publications section, which contains: 

• Current advisories
• Smoke forecasts
• Air quality health index
• Current air quality 

Source: Air - Province of British Columbia