The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has presented a Guide for the development of environmental projects in schools, focused on air quality and noise pollution. The presentation was held at the Colegio de Educación Infantil y Primaria Méjico in Madrid. The presentation was made by the General Director of Quality and Environmental Assessment of MITECO, Ismael Aznar, who was accompanied by technicians from the Carlos III Health Institute, who participated in participatory workshops with the students.
Despite the advances in air quality in the last decade, air pollution problems are still very important in Europe and Spain. Poor air quality has health impacts that lead to an increase in premature deaths from respiratory or cardiovascular conditions.
Along with air quality, noise is an environmental factor with serious effects on public health. On many occasions, the same sources of air pollution act as emitters of noise or vibrations, which imply risks and damage to the population and threaten the proper development of different activities. The vulnerable population, such as children and the elderly, is particularly sensitive to these problems.
The environmental projects in schools proposed in this Guide are framed in the initiatives commonly Known how “Science citizen”, based on in the participation no professional volunteers and environmental, working in the gathering data analysis and interpretation, problem definition and dissemination of results.
In this way, people without technical training are allowed to directly explore issues that affect and concern them, allowing them to participate in a way that is not very important.
informed in the public debate.
INVOLVEMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
In short, this Guide aims to involve children, together with the educational community, laying the foundations for future generations to
develop a sensitivity and knowledge that promotes more sustainable, healthy and respectful behaviours with the environment that surrounds us.
In this way, people without technical training are allowed to directly explore issues that affect and concern them, allowing them to participate in a way that is not very important.
informed in the public debate.
From today, the Guide and the diptych for students are available at the following link.
On the occasion of the presentation of the Guide, on March 24 the event “Childhood and environmental quality. Clean air in schools”. This conference, which will be opened by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, will be structured around different interventions and a debate between speakers from the
science, health, educational community, civil society and public administration.
The event will be broadcast on the different social media channels of the Biodiversity Foundation.
