Consultancy underscores value of air-quality offsets

Air-quality offsets offer a valuable tool for providing significant improvements in air quality, particularly when direct emission reductions are challenging or unfeasible, highlights global mining consultancy SRK Consulting South Africa chairperson and principal environmental geochemist Vis Reddy. Air quality offset programmes provide industries with an opportunity to counterbalance the impacts of their industrial emissions by reducing air pollution in surrounding communities that are generated from other sources.