PEHSU joins the UNICEF Children's Environmental Health Collaborative

It is the first entity from Spain to join, in an alliance of 64 organisations from around the world committed to protecting children from the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation

The Paediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU.CAT), based in La Garrotxa, has joined the UNICEF Children's Environmental Health Collaborative this January, an international alliance of 64 entities from around the world —governments, universities, healthcare centres and civil society organisations— that share a commitment to protecting children's health from the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation.

With this adhesion, PEHSU becomes the first entity from Spain to be part of this collaboration. The unit was admitted as a partner after presenting its commitment and its work in the field of paediatric environmental health, and hopes that other entities in the region will progressively join.

An active commitment to the alliance

Joining the Collaborative means that PEHSU takes on a series of concrete commitments within the alliance:

• Provide clinical assistance to children and their families affected by environmental risk exposures.

• Contribute research on the specific impacts of climate change and environmental degradation on children's health.

• Share guidance, tools and best practices to protect children from these impacts.

• Provide technical assistance, expertise and technical resources on children's environmental health to the other members of the alliance.

• Participate in joint convenings and promote coherent approaches to protecting children's environmental health.

This is an active commitment by the unit to the alliance's objectives and to its shared vision: that all children deserve to grow up in a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

An international alliance for children's health

The Children's Environmental Health Collaborative brings together 64 entities from around the world, including governments from different countries, universities, healthcare centres such as the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and organisations such as Save the Children and Human Rights Watch. All of them share a common vision: that all children deserve to grow up in a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and that working together will help achieve this more quickly.