Child and Adolescent Health
Impacts of Learning Indoor Environments
Under Net Zero

Better Indoor Spaces for Children

Healthy Spaces for Learning

Sustainable & Healthy Learning

Clean Air for Education

Healthier Indoor Learning Spaces

Collaborative Research in Action

CHILI will explore and test the best ways to make indoor learning spaces healthier for children and young people as buildings become more environmentally friendly.

Are you interested in your school’s air quality?

If you work or study at a school in England or Wales, you can get involved in CHILI.

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CHILI stands for Child and adolescent Health Impacts of Learning Indoor environments under net zero.

The UK plans to stop adding more carbon to the atmosphere than it removes by the year 2050 — this goal is called “net zero”.
Schools and nurseries produce about 15% of the carbon emissions from the UK’s public buildings. Children and young people also spend most of their school day indoors.
We need to understand how changing school buildings to be more eco-friendly will affect indoor spaces. We are investigating how things like air quality, heat, and building design will affect health. CHILI is bringing together researchers, children, young people, schools, and others to better understand these issues.
Together, this understanding will help create healthy, low-carbon schools, better supporting children’s health and learning.

The Research

We will study how making changes to school buildings affects things like air and temperature inside. We'll see how this impacts children's health and how often they go to school. We'll also test ideas like better airflow and air cleaners. CHILI aims to ensure that children’s health and education is supported and improved as school buildings are being made environmentally sustainable.

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