We write to you today to seek leadership from you and your Ministers of Health, Environmentand Foreign Affairs. As you will know, the Fourth Conference of the Parties to the StockholmConvention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) will occur in Geneva in early May.
We know that young children explore and learn through hand-to-mouth activity. But these innocent actions may also harm their health.
We congratulate the Canadian government for its support of a legally bindingglobal instrument to reduce human sources of mercury at the United NationsEnvironment Program Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
The development of this Vision and Strategy for Children’s Health and Environment in Canada builds on years of work by the partner organizations of the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) to gather and synthesize scientific evidence about the links between environmental exposures and fetal/child health outcomes, translate
CPCHE supports Ontario’s move to enact toxics reduction legislation and call upon the Ontario government to ensure a comprehensive approach in this law that:
People across Canada and around the world want to ensure the health and well-being of children. Through its year-long National Policy Consultation on Children’s Health and Environment, CPCHE engaged a diversity of stakeholders in an interactive dialogue on the role of the environment as a determinant of child health.
The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) and the Canadian Chemical Producers Association (CCPA) have spent the past year in a multistakeholder dialogue about environmental risks to children’s health.
The health of all children living in Canada is at risk from exposure to environmental hazards. Hundreds of toxic substances, such as air pollutants and pesticides are known, or suspected of contributing to adverse child health outcomes.
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