Sentences with phrase «children about air pollution»

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A YouGov poll, carried out for Sustrans, has revealed that 43 per cent of children living in urban areas are concerned about the levels of air pollution near their school.

Released to launch the Big Pedal 2018, the UK's largest schools competition to encourage more young people to cycle, walk and scoot to school, the survey also revealed that the number of children concerned about air pollution rose to over half in London (53 per cent) and that 34 per cent stated that politicians were most responsible for bringing down levels of air pollution, while 29 per cent held drivers as most accountable.

They believe that children should be engaged in learning about local environmental change, littering, air pollution and the impacts of the various construction and infrastructure projects that reshape the places they live.

Huge thanks to @antoinecosse, London based cartoonist and illustrator, for helping us to raise awareness about the effects of air pollution on children.

By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.

Beth Sawin: «Because [climate] issues touch on so many sectors, I see entry points almost everywhere... if your connection is asthma and children's health, then you can ask really hard questions about air pollution levels in your city, because a lot of the solutions to air pollution are also the solutions to climate change.»