Barry Gardiner MP - Speaks at the UN

Click on the link above to hear Labour MP - Barry Gardiner - talking about the need to improve air quality in schools. Here’s a few pertinent points that he makes…

"Where does a child spend most of their waking hours? In school [...]

And indoor air can be up to five times more polluted than outdoor air. It makes no sense for governments to be fixated on outdoor air as the problem.

Pollution respects no threshold. To these outdoor killers you can add airborne viruses, mould, fungal spores, bacteria because every building creates a climate of its own. 

Nowhere is this of greater consequence than in our schools where poor ventilation concentrates pollutants in stuffy classrooms. 

Our children drink about 2 litres of water every day. But they breathe 11,000 litres of AIR.  
A school would be closed down if it gave kids dirty water! 

It doesn't have to be like this.  
We're building the evidence that enables schools, families and institutions to take effective control..."