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The European Environment and Health Youth Coalition (EEHYC) is the first European youth participation network that emphasizes and promotes the understanding of the inherent links between environment and health. Youth participation in the decision making process is central to the Coalition's actvities and is supported by ministers of health and envionment through commitments made in the Declaration of the WHO Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health held in Parma, 2010.
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Rationale
We are living in an environment now that contains threats that we know about, and some that we don’t know about. At the same time, decision makers of tomorrow are the young people of today.
For this reason we, young people, want and need to be partners in the decisions on the environment and health, taken by policy makers and by those responsible for policy implementation.
Mission
The EEHYC seeks to support, legitimize and give visibility to young people’s participation in processes aimed at achieving a healthy and sustainable environment. The EEHYC will act to unite and focus youth-led activities to implement, monitor and strengthen the Parma Declaration commitments on environment and health. Primarily, this will be achieved by helping young people to establish platforms and networks and supporting ministries in creating effective mechanisms for meaningful youth participation in the European environment and health process.
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The European Environmnet and Health Youth Coalition gathered key messages from young people of Europe for the Climate Negotiators.
See for yourself what we have to say!