Canada needs to improve indoor air quality for kids as an early wildfire season looms, advocates say – The Star
April 25, 2024
Canada already has the framework in place to improve indoor air quality for kids, a new report finds — so why aren’t governments acting on them?
As Canada stares down another impending fire season, experts are sounding alarm bells for governments and institutions to act on providing cleaner air for some of our most vulnerable. According to a new report, the frameworks to do so are already in place.
The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) and its partner organizations have issued an urgent call to action Thursday, in a bid to improve indoor air quality on an increasingly polluted world.
“Children are particularly susceptible to harm from air pollutants … They’re much more vulnerable to the health effects of poor indoor air quality because their bodies, brains and respiratory systems are still developing,” Erica Phipps, the Executive Director of CPCHE, told the Star.
