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- EU debates measures for climate change adaptation
- 7th EAP: Will environment ministers deliver on E&H protection?
- Campaigning for a mercury free world
- Chemicals and health policy update - December 2009 & January 2010
- Health groups call for 40% target on carbon emissions
- High level health delegation at the Copenhagen Climate Summit
- NGOs prepare for Fifth Ministerial Conference on environment and health
- Paving the way for a greater health focus in the 7th EU Environment Action Programme
- Putting health at the centre of the EU Environment Action Programme
- "Toxic menu" launches cancer and environment campaign in France
- 3rd Paris Appeal International Congress, 12 - 13 April 2011
- 5th October Policy Event: EU Action on Environment and Health
- 7th EAP: kick-off debate in the European Parliament
- A joint declaration on reducing vehicle noise
- A Sound Investment to Reduce Vehicle Noise
- A toxics-free future!
- Act now or face costly consequences, warns OECD
- Agreement on renewal of the Kyoto Protocol at UN climate talks
- Air pollution increases chances of low birth-weight babies
- Air quality and health policy update - March 2010
- Air Quality in the spotlight in 2013
- Air quality policy update - February 2010
- Air quality policy update - May & June 2010
- Aphekom WP5 paper on health benefits of reducing urban air pollution
- Argentina takes an important step in protecting consumers from mercury
- ARTAC conducts a study on electrosensitivity
- Australian co-benefits report prominently mentions HEAL & HCWH Acting NOW! Report
- Bedroom dust used to urge EU to act more urgently on REACH
- Better policy uptake of scientific results
- Bisphenol A Update
- Bisphenol A: French efforts should serve Europe!
- BMA launches flagship report on healthy transport
- BMJ Climate, Security and Health statement signed by more than 500 medical scientists, doctors and security experts
- Book Review: Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children
- Breast cancer: Occupational exposure research highlights opportunities for prevention
- Bridging the science-policy gap: New website for health and environment professionals
- Bringing the health co-benefits message to Poland
- Brochure: Invisible burden of PBT chemicals
- Building a pesticide free future - How to get involved in the Pesticide Action Week!
- Call for the French Cancer Plan to recognise environmental factors
- Calling for safe regulation of hormone disrupting chemicals
- Campaign launched to ensure better air quality in London
- Campaign: Soot free for the climate
- Campaign: Soot free for the climate
- Campaigners call on pesticides manufacturer to withdraw the most hazardous chemicals
- Canadian doctors urged to fight climate change
- Cancer and Environment week – November 2010
- Cancer organisation announces position on non-cosmetic pesticides
- Challenge your candidates to the European Parliament on environment and health
- Changing your behaviour can help reduce climate emissions
- CHE releases Girl, Disrupted: Hormone Disruptors and Women’s Reproductive Health
- CHE releases statement on Parkinson’s and the Environment
- CHE: “Healthy Environments Across Generations” – the first ‘unconference’ for promoting health across the lifespan
- Chemicals and health policy update - February 2010
- Chemicals and health policy update - March 2010
- Chemicals and health policy update – October 2009
- Chemicals policy update - May & June 2010
- Chemicals policy update - November 2009
- Child exposure to PFCs associated with reduced immune response
- Child Safety Report Cards launched for 24 Member States
- Child Safety Report Cards: How much progress?
- Climate change and communicable diseases
- Climate change and health policy update – December 2009 & January 2010
- Climate change and health policy update – February 2010
- Climate change and health policy update – March 2010
- Climate change and health policy update – November 2009
- Climate change and health policy update – October 2009
- Climate change leads to more hospitalisations, new study suggests
- Climate change policy update - May & June 2010
- Climate change: European health strategy makes rapid progress
- Climate change: Missed opportunities to increase the EU’s commitment
- Commission calls for data on child-appealing chemical consumer products
- Commission decisions object to Member State requests for more time to comply with EU air quality legislation
- Commission launches youth health initiative
- Commission lowers maximum residue levels for 11 pesticides
- Commission proposes new EU climate policy
- Commission rejects bulk of air quality derogations
- Commission’s analysis provides case for stronger EU climate action
- Commission’s Green Week 2009 focuses on climate change
- Commission’s Staff Working Paper is good news for climate, health and the economy
- Competition: 2nd Children’s environmental health project competition
- Conference: ’A social and green agenda for the next decade’
- Congress: “Pesticides and Health: Options for improvements?”
- Council vote to adopt pesticides regulations
- Countdown to Rio+20
- Croatia: Environmental health prevention opportunities through EU accession
- Cutting soot mitigates climate change more than previously thought
- Czech Presidency priorities on environment and health
- Danish presidency event on health and climate
- Doctors call to reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields
- Documentary "Notre Poison quotidien" screening at HEAL
- Durban climate outcomes and health gains
- Early-life chemical exposures impact breast cancer risk later
- Early-life prevention of non-communicable diseases
- EDC Free campaign website launched by coalition of public interest groups
- EEA shows city population at highest risk
- EFA holds its 13th Annual Conference on 12 - 14 June 2009
- Eight more chemicals proposed for REACH ‘most harmful’ list
- Emerging public debate on health and environment impacts of fracking
- Energy Efficiency and health concerns
- Energy efficiency and indoor air quality: ENVI opinion highlights health concerns
- Energy-efficient buildings: A chance to create healthy and eco-friendly indoor environments
- Ensuring good air quality outdoor and indoor
- Environment & Health policy update - May & June 2010
- Environment and health action in Europe – is it making a difference?
- Environment and health action in Europe – is it making a difference?
- Environment and health policy update - December 2009 & January 2010
- Environment and health policy update - February 2010
- Environment and health policy update - March 2010
- Environment and health policy update - November 2009
- Environment and health policy update - October 2009
- Environment groups: European Commission off target
- Environmental health practitioners urged to promote "pesticide-free" public spaces
- EPA pesticide testing needs overhauled
- EPHA reaction on European Parliament vote for patient’s rights
- EP’s ENVI Committee gives push for health & environment protection for new EU biocides law
- ESCAPE air pollution research plans launch of results
- EU biocides law considered a “standstill” by NGOs
- EU Commission announces review of pesticide chlorpyrifos
- EU Commission off their game
- EU consults on tackling chronic diseases
- EU explores measures to further cut mercury use
- EU Green Paper on 2030 framework for climate and energy policies
- EU Health Commissioner talks "environment" at UN chronic disease summit
- EU high level conference on EDCs – the tipping point?
- EU Parliament supports stricter criteria on pesticides to safeguard health
- EU plan targets health problems of climate change
- EU proposes ban of highly hazardous biocides
- EU runs public consultation on Toxicity and Assessment of Chemical Mixtures
- EU scientific committee looks for mercury alternatives
- EU takes a stand on noise pollution from tyres
- EU Transport Sector at the Crossroads? EEA calls for measures to cut emissions
- EU urged to take health delegation to climate change talks
- EU Year of Air: strengthening EU legislation to reduce health impacts from air pollution
- Europe on track to exceed air pollutant emission limits
- European Child Safety Alliance (ECSA) Awarded Scholarship
- European Commission bans the use of bisphenol A in plastic baby bottles
- European Commission Communication: Towards a comprehensive climate change agreement in Copenhagen
- European Commission launches database of approved pesticides under Directive 91/141
- European Commission seeks to tackle health inequalities
- European Environment Agency (EEA) publishes alarming assessment of Europe’s vulnerability to climate change
- European Environment Agency reviews endocrine disruptors’ impacts
- European Environment and Health Ministers agree to accelerate Europe’s work to minimise environmental health hazards
- European Parliament Committee strengthens draft biocides law, but concerns remain
- European Parliament puts Endocrine Disruptors on the agenda
- European Parliament supports civil dialogue
- European Parliament weighs in on health effects of electromagnetic fields
- European Parliament’s vote on Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
- European Trade Union Confederation releases list of priority chemicals
- European Youth Forum debate on the role of young people in fighting climate change
- Experts gather to debate the future of EU noise policies
- Exposure to traffic air pollution in early years damages lung function in children
- Eye On Earth — Citizen observatory on air and bathing water quality
- Fears over pesticide exposure in the month of conception
- Film on pesticides and children’s health comes to the European Parliament
- Finnish health authority warns against wireless networks
- First Global Climate and Health Summit
- First meeting of the WHO Europe Environment and Health Ministerial Board
- First of Europe’s most harmful chemicals proposed for strict control
- First-ever opportunity to comment on proposed ban of combined phthalates in products - by 12 December
- Following up from Parma: the next steps in the WHO European Environment and Health process
- France bans BPA in food packaging
- France releases its second plan on environment and health
- French committee and charter on pesticide alternatives
- French government bans advertising of mobiles to children
- French national authority report prompts BPA ban in food contact materials
- French network responds to Health Minister on BPA
- French Parliament calls for urgent evaluation of aspartame
- French youth action at Parma
- G8 identifies focus on children’s environmental health
- Get involved in building a pesticide free future!
- Global consensus achieved on EDCs
- Global Mercury treaty to be signed in October
- Global Mercury treaty: it’s time for action on health
- Global warming is more harmful for people with respiratory problems, specialists warn
- Government bans all use of mercury in Sweden
- Governments agree to reduce use of persistent chemicals (POPs)
- Greener and Wiser; A new report from the older generation
- Groups call for public research to benefit society, not big business
- Groups continue to push for a second environment and health action plan
- Have your say in the consultation on chronic diseases
- HEAL action at Parma - DAILY UPDATES (March 2010)
- HEAL and its partners celebrate European consumer day
- HEAL and MDRGF launch postcard action for pesticide-free cities
- HEAL and other NGOs react to French Minister’s BPA statement
- HEAL announces entries for “Health and Environment Film Prize”
- HEAL Annual General Assembly; five new members and a new Executive Committee!
- HEAL Annual General Meeting (AGM) – a success!
- HEAL at CANCUN: Putting health at the centre of global climate talks
- HEAL at Durban for United Nations climate negotiations, COP17
- HEAL COP 17 partner work with WHO & GCCA
- HEAL e-News joins forces with WHO public health and environment
- HEAL has a new president
- HEAL hosts European film premiere: Living Downstream
- HEAL in the Media (January-March 2009)
- HEAL launches environment and health blog for young people
- HEAL launches new damp and mould directory
- HEAL Member wins award for environmental activism
- HEAL new member organisations, March and April 2009
- HEAL Policy Workshop on Air Quality
- HEAL Policy Workshop on Chronic Diseases and Endocrine Disruptors (EDCs)
- HEAL produces new materials on environment and health
- HEAL reports on colloquium on mobile telephones, WiFi, Wimax and health
- HEAL reports on European Commission workshop on electromagnetic fields
- HEAL Secretariat News - May & June 2010
- HEAL Secretariat News April 2009
- HEAL Secretariat News December 2009 and January 2010
- HEAL Secretariat News February 2009
- HEAL Secretariat News February 2010
- HEAL Secretariat News March 2009
- HEAL Secretariat News March 2010
- HEAL Secretariat News May - June 2009
- HEAL Secretariat News November 2009
- HEAL Secretariat News September - October 2009
- HEAL signs onto joint statement sent to Japanese government about mercury-contaminated sites
- HEAL speaks at French Senate on pesticides and health
- HEAL staff interviewed in TV film “Citizens against cancer”
- HEAL supports call for reducing exposure to BPA
- HEAL Team run for Clean air on Global Climate Action Day in EU capital!
- HEAL to participate in EU Green Week: Cleaner air for all
- HEAL welcomes MEP vote for better health protection in the 7th EAP
- HEALer Anne Stauffer receives a Clean Air London 2013 Award for her tireless work on air quality
- Health and Environment Priorities of the Cypriotic EU Presidency
- Health and environment professionals gather at the EU Open Health Forum
- Health community puts environment first in cancer prevention
- Health conclusions from ‘The Future We Want’ Rio+20 outcome document
- Health groups disappointment on EP noise vote
- Health impacts from coal power plants in Europe
- Health impacts from noise on the EU agenda
- Health impacts of air pollution need to be communicated more effectively
- Health impacts of climate change in the media
- Health impacts of coal power plants in the German-Polish region Lusatia
- Health impacts of nanotechnology: opportunities and risks
- Health insurance group takes up environmental health
- Health mobilisation in Durban
- Health risks from climate change highlighted in joint letter to the WHO
- Healthy Child, Healthy World website
- Healthy indoor environments protect children’s health, says WHO Europe
- Healthy indoor environments protect children’s health, says WHO Europe
- HEAL’s 2012 Annual General Assembly a success!
- HEAL’s latest report kicks off coal and health campaign in Europe
- HEAL’s reaction to proposal for 7th EU Environment Action Programme
- Highlights from Durban
- Hormone disrupting chemicals targeted to prevent chronic disease in EU
- Hot off the press: 1st SIN Reporter newsletter
- How fracking threatens public health
- How is indoor air quality in your school?
- Human biomonitoring at European level takes shape
- IDEA takes HEAL to Durban and Kenya
- Indoor air pollution and health in Europe remains on the agenda
- Indoor air quality: launch of EU health-based ventilation guidelines
- Indoor air quality: results from EU research projects
- Inside the new Parliament
- International mercury negotiations begin in Stockholm
- International Workshop on Non-Ionizing Radiation
- Interview with Prof. Christopher Wild, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
- Irish Doctors call for health focus in climate change talks
- Irish NGO health leader describes first-ever global Climate and Health Summit
- Is the EU standardisation process at odds with public health priorities?
- ISEE 2011: science to policy on environmental health research
- July 2012: The time is now to take action
- Landmark ruling on pesticides and farmers’ health
- Late Lessons from Early Warnings: A retrospective look at learning about precaution
- Late Lessons from Early Warnings: A retrospective look at learning about precaution
- Leading scientist on EDCs speaks on “winning back” public health
- Less dangerous substances in consumer products: the Ecolabel should pave the way
- Listen to your doctor: setting strict vehicle noise standards for better health
- Lung cancer deaths could be reduced by better policies to control indoor radon
- Main chemical industry lobby group’s registration deemed inaccurate
- Making waves on pesticides in France and UK
- Male reproductive health under threat
- Media Advisory: COP17 Press Conf. on Health Leaders Call for Urgent Action on Climate
- Mediator: Discussing the assessment and control of medicines in France
- MEPs approve new rules on safer cosmetics
- MEPs urge cancer prevention deal with environmental causes
- Mercury and health policy update - March 2010
- Mercury discussions at the UNEP Global Council could pave way to global ban
- Mercury exposure linked to diabetes risk
- Mercury Policy Update - February 2010
- Mercury policy update - May & June 2010
- Mixed message on environmental protection of human health
- More guidance for countries on EU pesticide legislation needed
- Nanomaterials: MEPs vote for consumer information
- New article
- New Environment and Health Network in France
- New Eurobarometer: Attitudes of Europeans towards air quality
- New film on toxic-free future
- New guidance on biomass and air quality in England and Wales
- New international treaty requires industries to report on pollutants
- New MEPs are important allies for the environment and health movement.
- New online environmental medicine education resources
- New paper highlights the role of the health care sector in combating climate change
- New poll shows the UK is sick of pesticides
- New project seeks to help EU cut transport emissions
- New report calls for holistic approach to climate change
- New report calls for the EU to eliminate obsolete pesticide stocks
- New report finds cutting GHG emissions cheaper than expected
- New report on EU pesticide monitoring
- New report on reproductive health and fertility
- New report on workplace exposures to nano-materials
- New report reveals chlorine production can harm children
- New Report: 30% emissions reduction target could save public health billions
- New research links Parkinson’s to pesticides
- New scientific study reveals adverse effects of mixtures of pesticides
- New study associates mercury exposure to attention deficit disorder
- New study investigates cancer rates in French farming communities
- New WHO report reveals unequal improvements in health in Europe
- Newsletter July - August 2009
- NGOs disappointed with Nano outcome of international conference
- Occupational exposure to pesticides linked to lymphoma, myeloma and leukaemia
- On the road to Durban and beyond: are you with us?
- Open Letter: The precautionary principle and chemicals
- Opportunities for health & environment under Danish EU presidency
- PAN UK’s new ’List of Lists’ on pesticides and health
- Parliament backs NGOs’ calls for tighter controls on nanotechnology
- Parma ministerial: positive discussions but little sense of urgency
- Pesticide victims: French authorities asked to compensate farmer
- Pesticides & biocides policy update - May & June 2010
- Pesticides Alternatives Week: phasing out the use of hazardous pesticides
- Pesticides and health policy update - December 2009 & January 2010
- Pesticides and health policy update - February 2010
- Pesticides and health policy update - March 2010
- Pesticides and health policy update - November 2009
- Pesticides and health policy update – October 2009
- Pesticides are poisoning Indonesia’s farmers, new research reveals
- Pesticides linked to childhood brain cancers
- Policy Debate: public health and the Common Agricultural Policy
- Policy Workshop on Chronic Diseases and Endocrine Disruptors (EDCs)
- Policy Workshop: EU Year of Air – how can we reduce air pollution to improve health?
- Prenatal Exposures: New database of chemicals and health effects unveiled
- Press Release: European doctor launches warning of “grave health consequences”
- Preventing cancer incidence starts with a strong chemicals policy
- Progress on first EU human biomonitoring project
- Proposal for new EU Health programme could strengthen environmental prevention opportunities
- Protecting health, improving well-being in the 7th EAP
- Protocol on pollutant release registers to enter force
- Public Health Financing on EU agenda
- Putting health on the climate change agenda
- Quiet please: The future of EU noise policies
- Quieter cars and lorries essential for improved health and more economically viable
- REACH candidate list will expand to 30 substances of very high concern
- REACH outs chemical risk potential: Euronews story on EU chemicals policy
- REACH: the second list of ‘very harmful’ chemicals is proposed
- Release of WHO’s and IARC’s World Cancer Report 2008
- Renewed hope for the EU’s environment and health action plan (EHAP)
- Report: Examining DDT’s health effects
- Report: Injuries in the European Union
- Report: Linking air quality and climate change can be cost-effective
- Report: Mercury in fish is a global concern
- RES and HEAL on EFSA Bisphenol A Statement
- Research on assessing risk of endocrine disrupting pesticides
- Research: Many air pollutants are higher indoors than outdoors
- Revising the EU strategy on endocrine disruptors: nearing a decisive moment
- Rio+20: Reinforcing the link between environment & health
- SCENIHR releases Risk Assessment on genotoxic and carcinogenic substances
- Science and policy: Bridging the gap
- Scientists emphasize chemical and nutritional origins of common diseases
- Scientists find more health implications on pesticide use in agriculture
- Scientists’ Appeal on children’s environment and health
- Second EEA ’Late Lessons’ report draws on environmental health concerns
- Secrectariat news - January 2009
- Seminar: Health and Environmental implications of Shale Fracturing for Natural Gas
- September 2012: Time to take action
- SIN List update: more chemicals for REACH’s hazardous list, and producer information
- Sixty-third World Health Assembly closes after passing multiple resolutions
- Social Fairness in Sustainable Development – A Green and Social Europe
- Spain, the new EU presidency
- Special WHO meeting on the implementation of children’s environmental health commitments
- Spotlight on Health and Clean Air
- Spotlight on noise and health
- Spring is in the air - and so are pesticides...
- Stakeholders back tighter air pollution controls
- Stop + go: Phase out nuclear, promote renewables
- Study estimates health impact of coal-fired power plants in India
- Study on GMOs strongly suggests need for reform
- Study shows pesticides creep into the homes and bodies of children in France
- Submit Case Studies in Good Practice for Environmental Health of Children & Youth
- Support a Strong Mercury Treaty
- Survey of organisations and agencies working on Damp and Mould
- Sweden: the new EU Presidency
- Take action now!
- Tctcktck interview with HEALer Julia Huscher on recent coal report
- The Future of the Environment & Health Action Plan in Europe
- The poor: greatest exposure to dangerous environmental factors
- The Unpaid Health Bill - How coal power plants make us sick
- Third High-level Preparatory Meeting to the 2010 Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health
- Third International WHO Conference on Children’s Environmental Health; June 2009
- Toxic Matters: helping to avoid hazardous chemicals
- Transport noise – the health impacts of noise pollution
- Tuna presents health risk in school lunches
- Tyres to get energy, noise and safety label
- UK alliance launched to prevent cancer
- UK publishes Children’s Environment and Health Strategy
- UK reports the health impacts from climate change
- UN organises screening of film on chemicals and health
- UNFCCC Barcelona negotiations: Prescribing for a healthy planet
- UNFCCC Climate Change negotiations: doctors highlight health implications
- UNFCCC COP17/CMP7 - Global Climate and Health Summit
- UNFCCC COP17/CMP7 HEAL Booth
- UNFCCC COP17/CMP7 HEAL Climate & Health Side Event
- UNFCCC COP17/CMP7 HEAL Delegation & Partners
- Urge Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner John Dalli to propose a full ban of the pesticide metam
- US Doctors call for immediate moratorium on GM foods
- US Environment Protection Agency supports pesticide use reduction in schools
- US expert warns on feminisation of boys
- US Strengthens Air Quality Standard for Nitrogen Dioxide
- Videos of presentations, workshops and testimonies of pesticides and health conference
- Voting for "healthy people and a healthy planet" in the European elections, June 4-7
- Watch the video to celebrate Pesticides Action Week 2013
- WECF France publish guide for expectant mothers
- WECF publishes Toys Guide with tips on how to choose toxic-free toys
- WECF symposium on substitution of hazardous chemicals
- Week Without Pesticides, 20th - 30th March 2010
- What’s for Christmas dinner? How does food industry respect EU pesticide limits
- What’s good for climate is good for health and the economy: Message presented to European Parliamentarians
- WHO conference on climate change and health: Lessons learnt in the European Region
- WHO European Centre for Environment and Health expands
- WHO European environmental health task force targets three international policy dialogues
- WHO report calls endocrine disruptors a ’’global threat’’
- WHO says reducing greenhouse emissions could cut global disease burden by 25%
- WHO: European Ministerial Board sets Rio +20 as a priority
- WHO: Moving on from Copenhagen
- Why human biomonitoring is important for public health and policy-makers
- Why the precautionary approach is needed for environmental health risks
- Wie schädigen Kohlekraftwerke unsere Gesundheit?
- Winner of HEAL’s health and environment film prize recognised at international film festivals
- Women’s Environmental Network launches online checklist for cosmetics
- Women’s Environmental Network petitions the Scottish Parliament over cancer-causing toxins
- Work for HEAL
- World leaders failed climate and people’s health
- World’s leading scientists urge politicians to act on climate change
- Youth participation at Parma
- ‘The Climate Bonus: Co-benefits of Climate Policy’
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2. Members’ news
- The Natural Health Service: a new campaign for healthier lifestyles
- Ireland hosts 19 countries for discussions on Child Safety Action Plans in Europe
- A generation of guinea pigs, no thanks! by Collectif Appel de la Jeunesse
- A new French authority to protect whistle-blowers and strengthen the ethics of scientific expertise by RES
- Action for Breast Cancer Foundation: Malta Airport ALIVE 2013 Cycling Challenge for Cancer
- AIM Invitation - International Conference on "Development of healthcare systems and challenges for long-term care: the mutual benefit societies’ point of view,” 14 Nov - Paris
- Alliance for Cancer Prevention responds to “Unpinking cancer”
- Appel de la Jeunesse: Conference on the impact of our environment on our health – EDCs
- ARTAC & ISDE run environmental health training for doctors in France
- AWHHE research reveals pesticide contamination in Armenia
- AWHHE: "Safe Toys For Our Children"
- Bisphenol A: French efforts should serve Europe!
- Book: Paediatric evidence in environment and health
- Breast Cancer UK to re-launch ‘No more BPA’ campaign
- C2DS calls for an energy efficiency fund in France
- C2DS Guideline “Better Practices, Guideline for the Health Sector”
- C2DS raises alarm about nano forms of titanium dioxide
- C2DS: Guides on Sustainable development and better practice in healthcare
- C2DS: National energy debate in France
- C2DS: Promotion of ANSES´s Scientific Conferences – PNR EST Review: Environmental pollution, health impact and environmental contaminants: air and water
- Call for global action on Chronic Respiratory Disease
- Calling for pesticide-free public spaces in Luxembourg
- Centre for Sustainable Healthcare UK tree planting project to raise awareness in healthcare
- Chair of Breast Cancer UK shortlisted for prestigious award
- CHE pamphlet on obesogens
- CIEH issues recommendations on fracking
- Collectif Appel de la jeunesse (A2J)
- Council of Europe: Report on health hazards of mercury and dental amalgams adopted
- CPES: Opportunities for cancer prevention discussed
- CPES: Participant at EFSA stakeholder forum on EDCs
- CPES: Regulatory challenges presented by endocrine disruptors
- CPES: When will we see better UK water quality?
- Department of Clinical Microbiology: Biocide developments in Sweden
- Economic policies must address the real impact of crisis on people living in Europe by EPHA
- ECSA highlights connection between poverty and Child Injury at EPHA event
- ECSA launches Child Safety Report Cards: How much progress?
- EFA Call to Action on Respiratory Allergies
- EFA event at the European Parliament "May Contain/Contains - Food Allergen Labelling"
- EFA launches call to action on respiratory allergies
- EFA pushes for EU funded Surveillance Network on allergies and asthma
- EFA: patients’ perspective on Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and its link to energy efficiency
- EFA: Report on the EP event "Indoor air quality and health-based ventilation guidelines’’
- EFA: Call for support for Allergology education on World Asthma Day
- ELF and ERS: Road traffic pollution as serious as passive smoke in the development of childhood asthma
- ELF: New research on effects of ozone on the fatty lining of the lungs
- ELF: New study shows exposure to common toxic substances could increase asthma symptoms
- ELF: Quarterly factsheets published on work-related lung diseases
- ELF’s lung testing campaign highlights importance of clean air
- EPHA and LSHTM: Preventing global non-communicable diseases through low carbon development conference
- EPHA Briefing on EU Policies and their iImpact on Children’s Health
- EPHA criticises unchecked influence of big business in Brussels
- EPHA event: Public health advocacy and capacity in Poland, 12-13 December, Warsaw
- EPHA hosts conference on tackling health inequalities through investing in housing
- EPHA position on the European Commission’s 7th Environment Action Programme
- EPHA responds to consultation on sustainability
- EPHA Statement on the World Water Day 2012: “Access to water and sanitation is a human right, not an ordinary commodity”
- EPHA: A call to action: Health, civil society and the reform of economic governance
- EPHA: Briefing on health in Europe 2020
- EPHA: EP backs tobacco subsidies & votes on CAP unfriendly to public health
- EPHA: MEPs lead urgent plea from health community to prevent health crisis in Europe
- EPHA: Policy-makers and civil society warned about the risks of neglecting public health in times of austerity
- EPHA: Secretary General Monika Kosinska becomes member of the Stoiber Group
- EPHA: Secretary General participates in high-level OECD workshop on "Defining and Measuring Inclusive Growth"
- EU reapproves controversial soil fumigant
- European Child Safety Alliance wins Gastein Award
- European Child Safety Alliance: Children and Household Chemicals
- European Child Safety Alliance’s Israel partner receives government endorsement
- False alarms or missed hazards: How should regulators define “endocrine disruptor”? by CPES
- Follow up on ‘One Health Sustainable Health’
- French health & environment question EFSA BPA decision
- French Parliament follows the road towards BPA-and EDCs-free products by RES
- French supermarket removes toxic chemical, Bisphenol A, from sales receipts
- From science to policy – Fifth annual conference of the Environment and Health Fund (EHF)
- Fundacion Vivo sano : Spanish survey on consumer perceptions around chemicals and health
- Fundacion Vivo Sano announces Congress on Risks for Public Health & the Environment
- Fundacion Vivo Sano shares contribution to the Pesticide Action Week
- Générations Futures bring political attention to “Phyto-Victimes”
- Générations Futures: Launch of an Elected Committee for Alternatives to Pesticides
- Générations Futures: French government ‘ignoring advice on pesticides’
- Générations Futures: The APAChe investigation: Analysis of agricultural pesticide presence in hair
- GF: Concerns about France’s increased pesticides use
- GF: Farmers: victims of pesticides - A hidden health scandal
- Guidance: sustainable and safe school sanitation
- Hand over of European Charter for Health Equity to EU Commissioner
- HEAL and MDRGF launch new network for health risks from pesticides exposures
- HEAL Secretariat News July - August 2009
- HEAL welcomes three new members
- Health community call on governments to acknowledge environmental causation of chronic illnesses
- Health insurance group takes up environmental health
- Help make BPA a thing of the past by signing the petition by Breast Cancer UK
- Hope for allergy sufferers as a new research programme begins
- How EFSA can prepare itself for the challenges of tomorrow by CPES
- IDEA and WECF: Women´s Major Group intervention on chemicals at UNEP Governing Council
- IDEA takes HEAL to Durban and Kenya
- IDEA: Disappointment on Rio+20 outcomes
- IEE event on preventing antibiotic resistance
- IEE political action on sustainable health: Nordic cooperation launches “One Health from a Nordic perspective”
- IEE Sweden: Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2013 - ´A World United Against Infectious Diseases: Cross-Sectoral Solutions’
- IEE: Now known as One Health Sweden
- Improving children’s health in Italy
- INCHES: 3rd International Conference highlights urgency to protect children’s health from environmental threats
- INCHES: 7th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment
- Initiativ Liewesufank reports on WHA executive board meeting
- International Conference on Children’s Environment and Health - Call for abstracts and registration
- IPEN Co-Chair Olga Speranskaya interviewed on Voice of Russia
- IPEN – Mercury monitoring: Global mercury hotspots report
- ISDE Austria: European Citizen´s Initiative "30kmh – making streets liveable!"
- ISDE, IDEA: Statement on Electromagnetic [radio frequency] Radiation [EMR] and Health Risks
- Joint call for tap water temperature limits to reduce the number of severe scalds to children
- Leading pesticide researcher receives prestigious award from ESPE
- Letters sent to EU Environmental Ministries asking for tighter control over chemicals
- LLM: Environment is also important for the mutual benefit societies
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine hosts a webinar on Biodiversity, Health & Equity in London on 20 April
- Malta Health Network & EPHA present «A taste of Europe: Introducing EU Health policy and how civil society can advocate for better health at EU level»
- Malta’s ABCF organises “Walk for Life”
- Natural England provides joint methodology on health economic assessment tools for walking and for cycling
- New child injury fact sheets
- New coalition created for safer toys
- New project promoting children’s environment and health
- New research on environmental justice in Roma communities
- NGO disappointed as French government report ignores recommendations on the dangers of pesticides
- No More BPA Campaign launched in UK and France
- No More BPA Campaign launched in UK and France
- One Health Congress: Human Health, Animal Health, the Environment and Global Survival
- One Health Sweden: How to fight microorganisms – a biocide conference in Uppsala, April 10th 2013
- Pan Europe appeal sets off ’historic’ court ruling
- PAN Europe launch guide to sustainable pesticide use
- PAN Europe publishes new report on the derogations of illegal pesticides granted by EU MS
- PAN Europe reports on EFSA
- PAN Europe warns: UK and Germany lobby against controls on dangerous pesticides
- PAN Europe: Conflicts of interest still evident on new ESFA expert panels
- PAN Europe: Criteria for Endocrine disrupting pesticides in food
- PAN Europe: new report on derogation for soil fumigation: Metam
- PAN-Europe makes urgent request for crop rotation
- Perchloroethylene called a carcinogen in the city
- Petition for Breast Care Unit in Malta
- PIN for Health opens a Centre for Rural Health in Croatia
- Preventing Obesity in Europe- EUROPREVOB Project
- Procedure leaves gates open for banned pesticides
- Promoting green health care
- Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Report - Many cancers linked to environmental factors
- Report - Improving school sanitation in a sustainable way
- RES gains official support for ban on dry cleaning chemical
- RES highlights campaign to ban dental amalgams
- RES: Congratulations to BPA researchers
- RES: Acting against endocrine disrupters: A path to explore urgently for the prevention of obesity and diabetes (ECOD Report)
- RES: Call on French government to give National Strategy on EDCs clear objectives for industry and business
- RES: Film recommendation: “The nine months that made you”
- RES: French Agency releases new BPA assessment
- RES: French environment discussion brings disappointment
- RES: Harmful effect of bisphenol A (BPA) shown experimentally
- RES: New French policy on Dental mercury
- RES: The role of EDCs in the rise of chronic diseases
- RES: Video on Pthalates’ Symposium now available
- Research: key mechanisms of pesticide-induced cancer
- Réseau Environnement Santé (RES) launches "Taste a better world"
- Ribbon of Hope / Ruban de l’Espoir 2011
- Sandra Steingraber Wins Heinz Award
- Say “no thanks!” to the guinea pig generation
- Short film on EDCs and breast cancer
- Sign the European Citizens’ Initiative: Water and sanitation are a human right by EPHA
- Tackling inequalities in home safety
- Test your nest: New kit to test air quality in your home
- VIVO SANO presents action plan on public health and the environment
- Vivo Sano raises awareness on emerging diseases
- Vivosano: Campaign launch on the banning of Bisphenol A in food contact material in Spain
- Vivosano: International Noise Awareness Day
- Vivosano: Voting recommendations on 7th EAP sent to Spanish MEPs
- Walk for Life: Malta raises Breast Cancer Awareness
- WECF and PAN: Up to 30 different endocrine disrupting pesticides found in fruit and vegetables in the EU
- WECF call for applicants to Rio+20 Good Practice Award
- WECF France: Endocrine disruptors: Threat to women’s health
- WECF invitation to take part in testing children toys for dangerous substances
- WECF studies toxicity in children’s toys
- WECF warns women and children at greater risk of leukaemia if in vicinity of nuclear power plants
- WECF: Information guide on EDCs
- WECF: More than 30,000 signatures to ‘Stop EDCs in toys’
- WECF: Participating in EP debate on the positive relations of gender sensitive and environmental policies
- WECF: Strengthen chemical and product safety in the Western Balkans
- WECF: Toxic free gifts for Dutch parliamentarians
- WEN: Seeing Red for Sanitary Protection and the Environment
- Women in Europe for a Common Future celebrates 15th anniversary
- World Environment Day: Talking Health!
- World Health Assembly adopts resolution targeted at saving the lives of children from injury
- “In small print”, a new documentary on endocrine disruptors by the Vivosano Foundation
- “Women for Green Way for Generations”: climate change electronic newsletter
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3. Newsletters
- Chemicals Health Monitor - August 2009
- Chemicals Health Monitor - June 2007
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - April 2008
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - April 2009
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - August 2007
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - December 2007
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - December 2009
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - February 2008
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - February 2009
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - February 2010
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - January 2008
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - January 2009
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - Jaunary 2010
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - July 2007
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - July 2007
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - July 2008
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - July 2009
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - June 2008
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - March 2008
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - March 2009
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - March 2010
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - May 2007
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - May 2008
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - May 2009
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - November 2007
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - November 2008
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - November 2009
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - October 2007
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - October 2008
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - October 2009
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - September 2007
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - September 2008
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - September 2009
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - Spring 2011
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin - Summer 2010
- Chemicals Health Monitor Bulletin -Winter 2010
- HEAL News - May & June 2010
- HEAL Newsflash - April 2011
- HEAL Newsflash - April 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - April 2013
- HEAL Newsflash - August 2010
- HEAL Newsflash - December 2010
- HEAL Newsflash - December 2011
- HEAL Newsflash - December 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - February & March 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - February 2011
- HEAL Newsflash - February 2013
- HEAL Newsflash - January 2011
- HEAL Newsflash - January 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - June 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - March 2011
- HEAL Newsflash - March 2013
- HEAL Newsflash - May 2011
- HEAL Newsflash - May 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - May 2013
- HEAL Newsflash - November 2011
- HEAL Newsflash - October / November 2010
- HEAL Newsflash - October 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - September & October 2011
- HEAL Newsflash - September 2010
- HEAL Newsflash - September 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - Summer 2011
- HEAL Newsflash - Summer 2012
- HEAL Newsletter - February 2009
- HEAL Newsletter - January 2009
- HEAL Newsletter - November 2009
- HEAL Newsletter Decemeber 2009 & January 2010
- HEAL Newsletter March 2009
- HEAL Newsletter March 2010
- HEAL Newsletter May-June 2009
- HEAL Newsletter September - October 2009
- Newsletter April 2009
- Newsletter February 2010
- Pesticides and Health e News - April 2010
- Pesticides and Health e News - Autumn 2010
- Pesticides and Health e News - December 2010
- Pesticides and Health e News - February 2010
- Pesticides and Health e News - January 2010
- Pesticides and Health e News - March 2010
- Pesticides and Health e News - Spring 2011
- Pesticides and Health e News - Summer 2010
- 5. Events
3. Members
Articles
- Action for Breast Cancer Foundation (ABCF)
- AKUT
- Appel de la jeunesse, Collectif (A2J)
- Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE)
- Association for Environmental Health
- Association for Research on Treatment against Cancer (ARTAC)
- Association Internationale de la Mutualité (AIM)
- Breast Cancer UK
- C2DS - Comité pour le Développement Durable en Santé
- Caisse Auxiliaire d’Assurance Maladie - Invalidité (CAAMI) / Hulpkas voor Ziekte- en Invaliditeitsverzekering (HZIV)
- Caisse des soins de santé de la SNCB Holding (CSS)
- Cancer Prevention and Education Society
- Center for Reproductive Health and Environment "Perzent"
- Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
- Centre Local de Promotion de la Santé du Brabant Wallon (CLPS bw)
- CEPRO-MED Health Development Promotional and Educational Center
- Chartered Institute for Environmental Health
- Clean Air Action Group (Levegö Munkacsoport Országos Környezetvédö Szövetség)
- Coalition of Associations in Healthcare (CAH)
- Croatian Nurses Association
- Department of Earth Sciences and Clinical Microbiology
- Eco-Accord on Environmental Problems Solution
- Eco-sense
- EcoTox Environment & Health
- Environment and Health Fund (EHF)
- European Academy of Environmental Medicine (EUROPAEM)
- European Child Safety Alliance (ECSA)
- European Federation of Allergy & Airways Diseases Patients´ Association (EFA)
- European Lung Foundation (ELF)
- European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
- European Respiratory Society (ERS)
- Fundacion Vivo Sano
- Generations Futures
- German Network Children’s Health and Environment (Network CHE)
- Green Doctors - ISDE
- Greens for Montenegro
- Hainaut Vigilance Sanitaire
- Health and Environmental Care Technical Organization (HECTOR)
- Initiativ Liewensufank, IBFAN Luxembourg
- Inter-Environment Wallonie
- International Network on Children’s Health, Environment and Safety (INCHES)
- International Society of Doctors for the environment (ISDE)
- Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association (IDEA)
- ISDE Austria - Ärtzinnen und Ärtze fur eine Gesunde Umwelt (ÄGU)
- Landsbond van Liberale Mutualiteiten (LLM)
- Lansbond der Christelijke Mutualiteiten
- Leefmilieu
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Macedonian Association of Doctors for the Environment (MADE)
- My right to know foundation
- Nationaal Verbond van Socialistische Mutualiteiten (NVSM)
- Natural England
- North of England EU Health Partnership
- One Health Sweden
- Own Crossroad Foundation / Válaszúton Alapítvány
- Pediatric Cultural Association
- Pesticides Action Network Europe (PAN)
- PIN Partnership-Information-Networking for Health
- Public Fund Maternity and Childhood Protection
- Réseau Environnement Santé (RES)
- Stichting Ecobaby
- Union Nationale des Mutualités Libres (MLOZ)
- Union Nationale des Mutualités Neutrés (UNMN)
- Union of Ecologists "Eco Protection"
- Women for Green Way for Generations (WGWG)
- Women in Europe for a Common Future
- Women’s Environmental Network
4. Policies
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1. Environment & health
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0. Press releases
- Beyond disappointment – European lawmakers on the side of automobile industry on traffic noise vote
- Cancer-linked pesticides used in schools - New survey
- Cancer: MEPs urge prevention related to environmental causes
- Competition rewards environmental projects that save children’s lives
- EU Health commissioner urged to bring "environment" to UN chronic disease summit
- EU says cancer prevention needs to address environmental factors
- European parliament condemns European citizens to noisier cities
- Four-language push to link pesticide use and cancer prevention
- Green 10: Mid-term assessment of the Commission shows poor environmental track record
- Green groups: European Commission off target
- HEAL announces “Health and Environment Film Prize”
- HEAL responds to vote on 7th Environment Action Programme
- HEAL takes part in ministerial talks on children’s health in Parma
- HEAL welcomes Environment Ministers’ inclusion of “health protection” in 7th EAP
- Health insurance group takes up environmental health
- Hundreds of companies and local businesses back a green energy future for Europe
- Les Trophées CEHAPE attribués aux projets environnementaux qui sauvent des vies d’enfants
- MEPs to be urged to address "missing link" in fight against cancer
- NGOs urge Commission to come forward with a second EU Environment and Health Action Plan
- Reaction to new EU vehicle noise limits proposal
- Traffic noise health impacts second only to air pollution, new WHO report says
- Wedstrijd beloont milieuproject dat levens van kinderen redt
- Wedstrijd beloont milieuproject dat levens van kinderen redt Giftig speelgoed, asbest in scholen en vervuild drinkwater
- WHO prioritises environmental and occupational cancer risks
- Winner of “Health and Environment Film Prize” announced
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1. Letters
- Green 10 letter: Green Stimulus Measures needed to Exit Crisis, warn leading environmental groups
- Joint NGO letter on the 7th EAP to EU environment ministers
- Joint NGO letter: Turning promises into action: achieving the 20% by 2020 energy savings target
- Open letter on EU research funding for 2014-2020
- Open letter: ENVI vote on draft report Leinen on 7 EAP – strengthen health and environment concerns to members of the ENVI committee
- To: Commissioner Dalli.
Re: EU Commission priority for pesticide reduction and better guidance for EU Member States implementation of National Action Plans - To: Commissioner Dimas
Re: Concerns about the current status and future challenges in implementing the EU Action Plan on Environment and Health - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Issue for Commission Designate Hearings - Weakening of DG Environment - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Please ensure the recognition of the role of environmental and occupational factors in cancer and the primary prevention of cancer - To: EU Environment & Health Ministers
Re: Council Conclusions on the Mid Term Review of the EU Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010 - To: EU Environment & Health Ministers
Re: Council Conclusions on the Mid Term Review of the EU Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010 - To: EU Health Commissioner, John Dalli; and
President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso;
European Commissioner for the Environment, Janez Potocnik;
Members of the European Parliament;
WHO focal points for environment and health
Re: United Nations High-level Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), 19-20 September 2011 - To: Jose Barroso, President of the European Commission
Re: Public Research should benefit Society, not Big Business - To: MEPs.
Re: MEPs called upon to protect EU transparency - To: President Barroso
Re: EU should support the stricter IMO regulation of the sulphur content in marine fuels in European ECAs - To: The European Commission
Re: The Commission consultation on the Green Paper on a European Citizens’ Initiative
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2. Position papers
- Final assessment of the 6th Community Environment Action Programme: Written Submission on stakeholder consultation
- Green 10 Position paper: The EU’s new Constitution - assessing the Environmental Perspective
- HEAL Briefing paper: Children’s health and the environment
- HEAL Consultation response: discussion document for a health strategy – “Health in Europe: a strategic approach”
- HEAL Consultation response: ‘The European Environment & Health Action Plan 2004-2010” (full version)
- HEAL Consultation response: ‘The European Environment & Health Action Plan 2004-2010” (short version)
- HEAL position paper on the 7th EU Environment Action Programme
- HEAL Position Paper: Preventing cancer through environmental policy change
- HEAL reponse to public consultation on 7th EAP
- HEAL response to consultation on chronic disease policy
- HEAL response to consultation on Rio +20
- HEAL response to public consultation on EU noise policy
- HEAL response to the UN Rio+20 consultation
- Joint statement: Calling EFSA to reform
- NGO Interventions: WHO Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health
- NGO Position paper: Sixtieth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe
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3. Publications
- Better health through a healthy environment
- CEHAPE Awards 2007: Environmental-friendly measures that improve child health
- CEHAPE Awards 2010: Environmental measures to improve children’s health
- Children’s Environment Health Award – Best Practice Entry Form
- Electromagnetic fields – worries and uncertainties
- Environment and Health in Europe - Advocacy and Capacity Building Training Programme Report
- Environmental Justice: Listening to women and children Brochure
- EU Health Forum Workshop: Policy Recommendations Integrating Environment and Health policy towards better health outcomes
- Final Report on capacity building workshops on EU and Pan European environment and health policies
- G10 - 10 simple steps to help halt biodiversity loss by 2010
- Green 10 - Off Target: European Commission 2004-2009 Environmental Progress Report & Lessons for the next Commission
- Green 10 Environment at the heart of Europe: An environmental roadmap for 2009-2014 the role of the European Parliament
- Green 10 Face the Future
- Green 10: A programme for the Sustainable Development of the European Union
- Green 10: The role of the European Parliament 2009 - 2014
- HEAL activities on Youth Participation and CEHAPE 2004-2007
- HEAL fact sheet - Chronic disease and environment
- Health and Environment Primer
- Introducing the GREEN 9 group of environmental NGOs active at EU level
- It’s our world, our future too: Young people’s voices on environment and health priorities
- Making the case for environmental justice in Europe
- Nature & Health: Green 10 Briefing for the European Parliament
- NGO Strategy Workshop: Taking the environment and health agenda forward in Europe
- Quiet please: Better health through strong EU regulation of road and rail traffic noise
- REACH Economic facts and figures
- Reducing cancer through environmental policy change
- Report: Environmental Track Record for the 2010-2012 European Commission - Off Their Game
- Resources on cancer and the environment - compiled by HEAL
- Response to ‘The European Environment & Health Action Plan 2004-2010’ COM (2004) 416 final
- The EU Environment and Health Action Plan (EHAP): Assessment and Outlook for future action
- The European Example: What Have We Learned about Health and the Environment?
- The Parliament Magazine: Health Non-communicable diseases - Environmental factors
- Towards Healthy Environments for Children: Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about breastfeeding in a contaminated environment
- ‘Could Try Harder’ A mid-term report on the European Commission’s environmental record
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4. References
- Canadian Cancer Society
Environment, Cancer and You - Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer and the Environment - Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Consensus Statement on Cancer and the Environment - Environment and Health strategic policy outline, informal paper for DG Environment, European Commission by Rappolder Marianne
- Environment Leaders’ Summit of the Eight
Declaration of the Environment Leaders of the Eight on Children’s Environmental Health - International Society of Doctors for the Environment
Declaration on Children, their health and their environment - Paris Appeal
the International Declaration on Diseases due to chemical pollution - The Asturias Pledge
A new call to action on environmental and occupational cancer prevention - US President’s Cancer Panel
Environmentally caused cancers are ’grossly underestimated’ and ’needlessly devastate American lives.’ - WHO Europe & European Environment Agency
Children Health and Environment: A Review of Evidence - WHO Europe
Parma Declaration on Environment and Health
- Canadian Cancer Society
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0. Press releases
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2. Chemicals
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0. Press releases
- European food panel fails to protect EU citizen’s health from plastic component, BPA
- Report paves way for ban on "gender bender" hormone-disrupting chemicals
- Study charts path for better protection from harmful "chemical mixtures"
- Banned toxics found in carpet underlay sold in EU
- Commission confirms intentions on BPA
- Common diseases linked to chemical exposures before birth
- Daily chemical exposure adds to obesity and diabetes risk
- Delegates Decision Prolongs Toxic Pollution
- Diet change can reduce BPA levels in humans
- EFSA opinion on endocrine disruptors problematic
- EP Committee tells Commission “the sooner the better” on EDCs
- EU biomonitoring shows mothers and children exposed to harmful chemicals
- European health group supports call for reducing exposure to BPA
- European Parliament vote on EDCs conveys urgency of protecting health
- Health and Environment NGOs comment on Bisphenol A ban
- Hormone disrupting chemicals targeted to prevent chronic disease in the EU
- Ministers worried about hazardous chemicals cocktails, but postpone action
- Press statement: Bedroom dust used to urge EU to act more urgently on REACH
- Protect children by cutting exposure to harmful chemicals
- Response to European Commission’s position on chemical mixtures released today
- Study offers warning of negative immune effects from PFC exposure
- Toxic Christmas gift: Council decides to keep hazardous biocides on market
- Which endocrine disrupting insecticides are children exposed to everyday?
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1. Letters
- Joint NGO letter to Commissioners on EDCs
- Joint NGO letter to President Barroso and Commissioners: Call to reduce our exposure to EDCs
- NGO comments on the RAC and SEAC opinion on the Danish phthalate dossier
- To: MEPs
Re: Ensure the strength of REACH in the EP plenary vote - To: Commissioners Dimas & Verheugen
Re: Ensure REACH is not vulnerable to weakening in future - To: EFSA
Re: Potential adverse health effects associated with BPA exposures - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Protect children’s health with REACH - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Report on the proposed regulation on food information to consumers - To: EU Environment Ministers Re: Joint NGO letter on the 7th EAP to EU environment ministers
- To: European Commission
Re: Consultation regarding the Review of RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC - To: MEPs
Re: Call for restriction of BFRs and PVC in electrical and electronic equipment in the RoHS revision - To: MEPs
RE: Ulmer Report on the Medical Devices Directive (93/42/EEC) - To: Minister of Health for France
Re: Response to statement about BPA
- 11. Choosing our future
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2. Position papers
- NGO Position paper: Priorities for REACH second reading (EN)
- NGO Position paper: Priorities for REACH second reading (ES)
- Call on industry to provide substitution case stories
- CHEM Trust & HEAL’s view on the report of the ED Expert Advisory Group
- Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals under REACH: Four Priority Areas for Regulation
- HEAL Position paper: Children´s special health vulnerability to environmental hazards and REACH
- HEAL response to consultation on chronic disease policy
- NGO Consultation response: RoHS Directive - technical changes to the scope of the directive, definitions and facilitating implementation
- NGO Position Paper on RoHS revision
- NGO Position paper: Five key demands to improve REACH
- NGO Position paper: Priorities for REACH second reading (FR)
- NGO Position paper: Requirements for the proper regulation of chemicals with endrocrine disrupting properties
- NGOs Position Paper on the EC proposal for a Medical Device Regulation COM(212) 542
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3. Publications
- A CHEM Trust and HEAL briefing: Regulating chemicals with endocrine disrupting properties
- A healthy environment for our children
- Bisphenol A in plastics: It’s making us sick
- Breast Cancer - an environmental disease, the case for prevention
- Breast Cancer and exposure to hormonally active chemicals: An appraisal of the scientific evidence
- Breast Cancer: Factors influencing the risk of breast cancer – established and emerging
- Breast Cancer: Preventing the preventable
- Brominated Flame Retardants: Assessing DecaBDE Debromination in the Environment
- Chemical Cocktails: harmful mixtures upset our hormones
- Chemical substances: invisible and unknown
- Chemicals beyond control ensuring EU chemicals policy protects human health and the environment
- CHEMICALS HEALTH MONITOR - Bookmark to address the link between chemicals, health and disease
- CHEMICALS HEALTH MONITOR - Postcard to address the link between chemicals, health and disease
- CHEMICALS HEALTH MONITOR - Report to address the link between chemicals, health and disease
- Chemicals in our food and consumer products – A missing link in the epidemics of obesity and diabetes? (Leaflet)
- Choosing our future - For a healthier life, consume chemicals in moderation!
- Harmful chemicals in products you buy? Your right to know
- Harmful Plastic Softener (DEHP) in medical devices
- Invisible burden - Good reasons to get rid of PBT chemicals
- Male Reproductive Health Disorders and the Potential Role of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (Sharpe report)
- Men under threat Report: The decline in male reproductive health
- Men Under Threat: How the decline in male reproductive health may be linked to exposure to chemicals
- Nanotechnology and Health Risks
- Navigating REACH: An activists’ guide to using and improving the new EU chemicals legislation
- Neurotox Briefing: Chemicals compromising our children
- REACH My voice: how you can demand better protection of human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals
- REACH Public Briefing: What will the new EU chemicals legislation deliver for public health?
- Sick of Chemicals : A review of the evidence
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4. References
- California Medication Association
Resolution on Chemicals Policy for California - Chapel Hill BPA Expert Panel Consensus Statement
Integration of Mechanisms, Effects in Animals and Potential to Impact Human Health - Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Vallombrosa Consensus Statement on Environmental contaminants and human fertility compromise - Consensus Paper: Developmental Origins of Non-Communicable Diseases and Dysfunctions: Implications for Research and Public Health
- Endocrine Society
Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement - Helsinki Statement: Is endocrine disruption within REACH?
- International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)
Declaration for a Toxics-Free Future - Our Stolen Future
- Paris Appeal
the International Declaration on Diseases due to chemical pollution - Prof. Dr. Andreas Kortenkamp
State of the Art Report on Mixture Toxicity - Professor Andreas Kortenkamp - The Prague Declaration on Endocrine Disruption
- Professor Andreas Kortenkamp
Breast cancer and exposure to hormonally active chemicals: An appraisal of the scientific evidence - Professor Richard Sharpe
Male Reproductive Health Disorders and the Potential Role of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals - Standing Committee of European Doctors
Health and environment (REACH) - The Faroes Statement
Human Health Effects of Developmental Exposure to Chemicals in Our Environment - Various scientists
Prague Declaration on endocrine disruptors - World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA)
Resolution on “Safer Chemical Policies” - World Medical Association
Statement on Environmental Degradation and Sound Management of Chemicals
- California Medication Association
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0. Press releases
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3. Pesticides
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0. Press releases
- More guidance for countries on EU pesticide legislation needed
- "Notre Poison quotidien" highlights EU’s environmental health challenges
- Cancer-linked pesticides used in schools - New survey
- CAP reform: a pale and unhealthy shade of green
- Daily chemical exposure adds to obesity and diabetes risk
- DES ESPACES PUBLICS EN VERT ET CONTRE TOUT PESTICIDE !
- EP fails to protect consumers and the environment from biocides
- EU Biocide Policy – Safety for Health and Biodiversity first!
- EU biocides law considered a “standstill” by NGOs
- European Parliament Committee strengthens draft biocides law, but concerns remain
- Four-language push to link pesticide use and cancer prevention
- Our daily poison: Film investigates the causes of our cancer epidemic
- Parliament clears final hurdle towards EU pesticide blacklist
- Week without pesticides becomes "Pesticides Alternatives Week"
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1. Letters
- To: AGRI Committee
Re: Better protection of vulnerable groups, in particular children, is needed against the hazardous health effects of pesticides - To: ENVI
Re: ENVI Exchange of Views on Biocides Regulation - To: ENVI Committee
Re: NGO position on the draft Klaß report concerning the biocide regulation - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides (COM(2006)372) - To: IMCO Committee
Re: Better protection of vulnerable groups, in particular children, is needed against the hazardous health effects of pesticides - To: IMCO Committee
Re: NGO vote recommendations in view of the vote in the IMCO-Committee on the amendments to the Commission’s proposal for a biocide regulation (COM 0267) - To: ITRE Committee
Re: Better protection of vulnerable groups, in particular children, is needed against the hazardous health effects of pesticides - To: ITRE Committee
Re: NGO vote recommendations in view of the vote in the ITRE-Committee on the amendments to the Commission’s proposal for a biocidal regulation (COM 0267) - To: Lidl Supermarket
Re: Pesticides reduction standards in all Lidl countries - To: Members of the Council Working Group for Environment.
Re. Joint NGO recommendations for the forthcoming considerations of Council Working Group for Environment concerning the biocide regulation (COM (2009) 267) - To: MEPs
Re: NGO recommendations for the EP vote on ENVI report (Biocide Regulation) - To: Ministers of Agriculture, Environment & Health
Re: Call to reject EU authorisation of 6 unacceptable pesticides
- To: AGRI Committee
- 2. Position papers
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3. Publications
- A vote for my child’s health - Please do not spray hazardous pesticides where my child eats, plays and learns
- Cut back on Pesticides for healthier lives
- Investigating chemicals in your school - toolkit
- Pesticides - a toxic education? A survey of pesticides in UK schools
- Pesticides in schools : Leaflet
- Pesticides in schools : Short guide
- Six steps to pesticide reduction: A HEAL toolkit for communities and individuals wishing to reduce local pesticide use
- Ville Zero Pesticides: Pour que nos enfants ne nous accusent pas
- Which pesticides are used in my School?
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4. References
- ChemTrust
A review of the role of pesticides play in some cancers: Children, farmers and pesticides users at risk? - Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Agriculture and Cancer: A need for action - Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative Scientific and Policy Consensus Statements on Environmental Factors - Collegium Ramazzini
Call for Action : Control of Biocides in the European Union - Collegium Ramazzini Statement: The control of Pesticides in the European Union: A Call for Action to Protect Human Health
- Ontario College of Family Physicians
Systematic review of Pesticide Human Health Effects - Our Stolen Future
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Kortenkamp
State of the Art Report on Mixture Toxicity - The benefits of strict cut-off criteria on human health in relation to the proposal for a Regulation concerning plant protection products, European Parliament
- WHO Europe & European Environment Agency
Children Health and Environment: A Review of Evidence
- ChemTrust
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0. Press releases
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4. Climate change
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0. Press releases
- Health Care Can Help Lead the Fight Against Climate Change
- Lung health under threat from climate change and deteriorating air quality
- Respiratory doctors call for EU action on climate change
- 30% emissions reduction target could save public health billions
- Article published Climate report: How Hungary could improve health and save money
- Article published HEAL and HCWH announce top-level delegation and daily briefings at COP15 Negotiations (14 - 17 December)
- Call for "health check" at climate change talks
- Climate report: How Austria could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Bulgaria could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Czech Republic could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Greece could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Portugal could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Romania could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Slovakia could improve health and save money
- Coal’s health bill reaches €43 billion a year
- Commissioner presented with health community’s "Prescription" on climate change
- Commission’s good news on health benefits should tip balance for higher EU climate target
- Doctors say: Don’t forget the health dividend
- Doha health declaration wins major support from European groups
- Durban climate outcomes and health gains
- ENVI Committee vote cheered by two major health groups
- EU Plan targets health problems related to climate change
- Evidence of huge boost to public health from stronger climate policy
- Fewer carbon emissions means better health and greater productivity
- HEAL backs 10 guiding principles and call to tackle an invisible killer
- HEAL signs up for urgent action on climate change
- Health groups call for 40% target on carbon emissions
- Health impact of climate change not recognised in Parliamentary resolution
- Health impact of climate change recognised in EP resolution
- Health leaders call for strong measures on climate change
- Health mobilisation in Durban
- Highlights from Durban
- Info Release - First Global Climate and Health Summit
- Irish NGO health leader describes first-ever global Climate and Health Summit
- Media Advisory - COP17 Press Conf.: Health Leaders Call for Urgent Action on Climate
- Message to EU delegation: Don’t forget the health dividend
- Negociaciones sobre Cambio Climático en Barcelona, 2-6 Noviembre 2009 Líderes del Sector Salud solicitan medidas decisorias sobre el cambio climático
- On the road to Durban and beyond: are you with us?
- Statement following the EU environment Council meeting
- Tackling the twin threats of climate change and the global health gap
- UNFCCC COP17/CMP7 HEAL Delegation & Partners
- Vassiliou welcomes health community’s "Prescription" on climate change
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1. Letters
- Energy efficiency targets for a healthy climate, clean air and healthy housing
- HEAL letter on ENVI discussion on Energy Efficiency – Indoor air quality and health concerns
- Health risks from climate change highlighted in joint letter to the WHO
- To: ENVI Committee
Re: Proposals for amendment of the “European Parliament Resolution on the EU strategy for the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change (COP 15) - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Proposals to amend the European Parliament draft report on the “Commission White Paper: ‘Adapting to climate change: Towards a European framework for action’ (2009/2152 (INI)) - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Effort Sharing Proposal of the “Climate Action and Renewable Energy Package” 5th June 2008 Council Meeting Dear EU - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Input to Environment Council meeting 21 October Council conclusions on the Preparation of the EU Position for COP 15 - To: Members of the European Parliament
Re: Plenary Vote on the “Analysis of options to move beyond 20% greenhouse gas emission reductions and assessing the risk of carbon leakage” - To: MEPs
Re: Plenary vote on the “Motion for a Resolution on the EU strategy for the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change (COP 15)”, 25 November - To: MEPs
Re: Strengthen health protection and include health co-benefits in adaptation policy - To: Ministre de l’Ecologie du Développement durable, du Transport et du Logement
Re: Contribution des médecins et ONGs en amont du Conseil européen des Ministres de l’environnement du 21 juin 2011 - To: President Barroso
Re: Europe’s emissions reduction target to the UNFCCC Secretariat, 31 January 2010 - To: President Barroso
Re: Improving health representation in climate change discussions and outcomes - To: President Barroso
Re: The Roadmap for a low carbon economy must include the 30% GHG target and stress health benefits and healthcare savings - To: Spanish Presidency of the EU
Re: Europe’s emissions reduction target to the UNFCCC Secretariat - To: UNFCCC National focal points
Re: Input to international climate talks in Cancun - To: UNFCCC National focal points
Re: Input to Intersessional informal consultations on climate change, 10 – 14 August
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2. Position papers
- HEAL Position paper: EU climate change and health
- COP17 Durban Declaration on Climate and Health
- COP17 Durban: Protecting Public Health From Climate - A Global Call to Action
- Green 10 Position paper: Climate change briefing for the Parliament
- HEAL Consultation response: European Commission Green Paper on Climate Change 2007
- HEAL response to public consultation on an EU strategy on adaptation to climate change
- HEAL submission to the consultation process on the EIB energy lending policy review
- NGO Position paper: Cancun Climate and Health Statement (ENGLISH)
- NGO Position paper: Cancun Climate and Health Statement (French)
- NGO Position paper: Cancun Climate and Health Statement (SPANISH)
- NGO Position paper: Climate change and health - Engaging the regions Conference Recommendations
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3. Publications
- Acting now for a better Health - 30 % Reduction Target for EU Climate Policy
- Briefing for policy makers: The health benefits of greenhouse gas reduction policies
- Cancun Climate and Health Statement
- Climate change and Health : Protecting the most vulnerable
- Climate Change and Health Good Practice Award: Competition Entries
- Climate change and the lungs - Fact Sheet for Adults & Children
- Climate change may be hazardous to your health
- Cut emissions, boost health
- Green 10 Briefing for the European Parliament - Climate change
- Health and fiscal co-benefits of emissions reductions: a summary for negotiators
- Healthy hospitals, healthy planet, healthy people
- Public Health & Climate change
- Questions & Answers: Moving Beyond 20% - How reducing greenhouse gas emissions benefits people’s health in the EU
- Report: The Unpaid Health Bill - How coal power plants make us sick
- The co-benefits to health of a strong EU climate change policy
- What’s good for climate is good for health
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4. References
- Climate and Health Council
Health and fiscal co-benefits of emissions reductions: a summary for negotiators at Cancun - European Respiratory Society
Position Statement, Climate change and respiratory disease - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Climate Change 2007 synthesis report. Summary for policy makers - International Society of Doctors for the Environment
Position paper on Climate Change and Human Health - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Fourth Assessment Report - The Lancet Series
Managing the health effects of climate change - World Medical Association
Declaration of Delhi on Health and Climate Change
- Climate and Health Council
- 5. Media coverage
- 7. Acting NOW for better health
- 8. Prescription for a healthy planet
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0. Press releases
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5. Air quality
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0. Press releases
- European Commission delays air pollution legislation, yet again
- Air pollution ranked as top health risk factor in Europe
- Coal’s health bill reaches €43 billion a year
- European and International Health Organisations unite to call for European action to combat Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- European Launch of the Year of the Lung 2010 held in Marseille
- HEAL backs 10 guiding principles and call to tackle an invisible killer
- Health impact of climate change recognised in EP resolution
- Lung health under threat from climate change and deteriorating air quality
- Research quantifies increased life and wealth from cleaner air
- Respiratory doctors call for EU action on climate change
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1. Letters
- G10 EU directors letter: Call for EU leaders to ensure a high ambition level in the revised Gothenburg Protocol on air pollution to Mr. Janez Potocnik and Mrs. Ida Auken
- HEAL letter on ENVI discussion on Energy Efficiency – Indoor air quality and health concerns
- HEAL response to EURACOAL statement
- Joint NGO letter: Comments to DG ENV on the analysis underpinning the review of EU air quality policy
- NGOs call for EU air quality limit values to be enforced by the European Commission
- To: Commissioner Potocnik
Re: Upcoming Commission decision on the revision of the National Emissions Ceilings Directive (NEC) - To: Commissioner Potocnik
Re: NGO call for a prioritisation of air quality action (revision of the National Emission Ceilings and the Sulphur Content of Marine Fuels Directives) - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Call for defending existing health standards on air pollution (Krahmer report) - To: EU Environment & Health Ministers
Re: EU air quality standards - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Informal Environment Council: your exchange on air quality and urban environment, 22 April - To: Jose Barroso, President of the European Commission
Re: Midterm review of the 2001 Common Transport Policy white paper - To: MEPs Corbey and Krahmer
EU thematic stategy on air quality and ambient air quality legislation - To: President Barroso
Re: Unacceptable move on Euro VI air pollution standards heavy goods vehicles - To: President Barroso and the EU Commissioners
Re: Your upcoming College discussion on further measures to reduce air pollution in the EU - To: The Members of the European Parliament Committee for Environment, Health and Public Safety Committee for Transport and Tourism Re: Amendment of Directive 1999/32/EC: The EU should fully transpose IMO Marpol Annex VI and support the implementation of stricter standards on the sulphur content of marine fuels
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3. Position papers
- HEAL Position paper: EU thematic strategy and air quality health limit values
- Joint NGO comments on review of air policies
- Joint NGO comments on the analysis underpinning the review of EU air pollution policy review
- Joint position paper: NGO priorities for the review of the Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution
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3. Publications
- Background Paper: Health impacts of lignite-fired power plants: The German-Polish region Lusatia
- Background Paper: Health impacts of lignite-fired power plants: The German-Polish region Lusatia (German)
- Clearing the air: indoor air quality makes all the difference
- Damp and Mould: Health risks, prevention and remedial actions
- Damp Mould: Directory of Agencies In the European Region Providing Information on Damp and Mould to the Public
- Indoor air pollution and the lungs – Fact Sheet for Adults & Children
- Outdoor air pollution and the lungs - Fact Sheet for Adults & Children
- Report: The Unpaid Health Bill - How coal power plants make us sick
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4. References
- European Respiratory Society - 10 principles for clean air
- European Respiratory Society
European Lung White Book - European Respiratory Society
Position Statement, Climate change and respiratory disease - WHO
Air quality guidelines - global update 2005 - WHO Europe
Guidelines for indoor air quality : dampness and mould - WHO Europe
Guidelines for indoor air quality: selected pollutants
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0. Press releases
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6. Mercury
- 0. Press releases
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1. Letters
- Joint letter: Last chance to develop strong treaty to reduce mercury exposure
- Joint letter: ZMWG reports and reaction to 2985 CONTAM opinion on TWI MeHg
- Joint NGO letter: Support phase-out of mercury use in dentistry in the EU and globally
- To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Supporting a broad export ban and safe storage of mercury - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Supporting a broad export ban and safe storage of mercury - To: EU Environment Ministers,
Cc: Commissioner Potocnik and Director General Falkenberg
Re: Joint Letter: Support for phase-outs of mercury use in dentistry in the EU and globally - To: EU Members States’ experts
Re: Calling for a wide mercury export ban and safe temporary storage of surplus mercury - To: European Commission
Re: Commission review of the availability of safer alternatives to Measuring Devices containing mercury - To: MEPs
Re: Support the compromise amendments, eliminate mercury from consumer mersuring devices - To: MEPs
Re: Calling for a robust mercury export ban and safe surplus storage regulation
- 2. Position papers
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3. Publications
- Clearing up Misconceptions about Mercury and Health
- Dental sector as a source of Mercury contamination – Conference Report
- Halting the child brain drain: Why we need to tackle global mercury contamination
- Managing Small Mercury Spills
- Mercury - Global burden and risk to childhood skills
- Mercury and Dental Amalgams
- Mercury and Fish Consumption
- Mercury and Health
- Mercury and Vaccines
- Mercury in Health Care
- Submitting Mercury Sphygmomanometers
- Zero Mercury Key issues and policy recommendations for the EU Strategy on Mercury
- 4. References
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7. Other issues
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0. Cancer
- 0. Press releases
- 1. Letters
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2. Position papers
- Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Consensus Statement on Cancer and the Environment - HEAL Briefing paper: Reducing cancer through environmental policy change
- HEAL Position paper: Cancer Prevention and the Environment - examples and opportunities for national and EU policy makers
- HEAL Position Paper: Preventing cancer through environmental policy change
- NGO Interventions: WHO Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health
- Collaborative on Health and the Environment
- 3. Publications
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4. References
- Canadian Cancer Society
Environment, Cancer and You - ChemTrust
A review of the role of pesticides play in some cancers: Children, farmers and pesticides users at risk? - Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer and the Environment - Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Agriculture and Cancer: A need for action - The Asturias Pledge
A new call to action on environmental and occupational cancer prevention - US President’s Cancer Panel
Environmentally caused cancers are ’grossly underestimated’ and ’needlessly devastate American lives.’
- Canadian Cancer Society
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1. Noise
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0. Press releases
- Beyond disappointment – European lawmakers on the side of automobile industry on traffic noise vote
- EU announces plan to make cars and lorries quieter
- EU citizens call for quick action to curb traffic noise
- European parliament condemns European citizens to noisier cities
- Reaction to new EU vehicle noise limits proposal
- Traffic noise health impacts second only to air pollution, new WHO report says
- 1. Letters
- 2. Position papers
- 3. Publications
- 4. References
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0. Press releases
- 3. Fracking
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5. EU governance
- 0. Press releases
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1. Letters
- To: ECOFIN
Re: Council debate on the EU’s Sustainable Development Strategy, 5 May - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Issue for Commission Designate Hearings - Weakening of DG Environment - To: MEPs.
Re: MEPs called upon to protect EU transparency - To: The European Commission
Re: The Commission consultation on the Green Paper on a European Citizens’ Initiative
- To: ECOFIN
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2. Position papers
- Green 10 Position paper: A revised sustainable development strategy for the EU
- Green 10 Position paper: Nature and health briefing for the Parliament
- Green 10 Position paper: Policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged union 2007 - 2013
- Green 10 Position paper: Sustainability - Our vision for a new EU budget
- Green 10 Position paper: Ten green principles for the EU budget review
- Green 10 Position paper: The creation of a high level group on competitiveness
- Green 10 Position paper: The EU’s new Constitution - assessing the Environmental Perspective
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3. Publications
- Green 10 - Off Target: European Commission 2004-2009 Environmental Progress Report & Lessons for the next Commission
- Green 10 Environment at the heart of Europe: An environmental roadmap for 2009-2014 the role of the European Parliament
- Green 10: A programme for the Sustainable Development of the European Union
- Green 10: The role of the European Parliament 2009 - 2014
- ‘Could Try Harder’ A mid-term report on the European Commission’s environmental record
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0. Cancer
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5. Resources
Articles
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1. Press releases
- European health group supports call for reducing exposure to BPA
- Research quantifies increased life and wealth from cleaner air
- "Notre Poison quotidien" highlights EU’s environmental health challenges
- 30% emissions reduction target could save public health billions
- 5-MINUTE TASK FOR YOUR HEALTH: Help push harmful chemicals off the market!
- Air pollution ranked as top health risk factor in Europe
- Banned toxics found in carpet underlay sold in EU
- Beyond disappointment – European lawmakers on the side of automobile industry on traffic noise vote
- Call for "health check" at climate change talks
- Cancer-linked pesticides used in schools - New survey
- Cancer: MEPs urge prevention related to environmental causes
- CAP reform: a pale and unhealthy shade of green
- Climate report: How Austria could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Bulgaria could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Czech Republic could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Greece could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Hungary could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Portugal could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Romania could improve health and save money
- Climate report: How Slovakia could improve health and save money
- Coal’s health bill reaches €43 billion a year
- Commission confirms intentions on BPA
- Commissioner presented with health community’s "Prescription" on climate change
- Commission’s good news on health benefits should tip balance for higher EU climate target
- Common diseases linked to chemical exposures before birth
- Competition rewards environmental projects that save children’s lives
- Daily chemical exposure adds to obesity and diabetes risk
- Delegates Decision Prolongs Toxic Pollution
- DES ESPACES PUBLICS EN VERT ET CONTRE TOUT PESTICIDE !
- Diet change can reduce BPA levels in humans
- Doctors say: Don’t forget the health dividend
- Doha health declaration wins major support from European groups
- EFSA opinion on endocrine disruptors problematic
- ENVI Committee vote cheered by two major health groups
- Environment Ministers shy away from a 30% reduction target
- EP Committee tells Commission “the sooner the better” on EDCs
- EP fails to protect consumers and the environment from biocides
- EU announces plan to make cars and lorries quieter
- EU bio-monitoring shows mothers and children exposed to harmful chemicals
- EU Biocide Policy – Safety for Health and Biodiversity first!
- EU biocides law considered a “standstill” by NGOs
- EU citizens call for quick action to curb traffic noise
- EU Health commissioner urged to bring "environment" to UN chronic disease summit
- EU Plan targets health problems related to climate change
- EU says cancer prevention needs to address environmental factors
- European and International Health Organisations unite to call for European action to combat Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- European Commission delays air pollution legislation, yet again
- European Commission falls behind on EU Mercury Strategy
- European food panel fails to protect EU citizen’s health from plastic component, BPA
- European Launch of the Year of the Lung 2010 held in Marseille
- European Parliament Committee strengthens draft biocides law, but concerns remain
- European parliament condemns European citizens to noisier cities
- European Parliament vote on EDCs conveys urgency of protecting health
- Evidence of huge boost to public health from stronger climate policy
- Fewer carbon emissions means better health and greater productivity
- Four-language push to link pesticide use and cancer prevention
- Fracking: A peril looming over Europe’s environmental health
- Global mercury treaty would make Europe’s children brainier
- Green 10: Mid-term assessment of the Commission shows poor environmental track record
- Green groups: European Commission off target
- HEAL and HCWH announce top-level delegation and daily briefings at COP15 Negotiations (14 - 17 December)
- HEAL announces “Health and Environment Film Prize”
- HEAL backs 10 guiding principles and call to tackle an invisible killer
- HEAL responds to vote on 7th Environment Action Programme
- HEAL signs up for urgent action on climate change
- HEAL takes part in ministerial talks on children’s health in Parma
- HEAL welcomes Environment Ministers’ inclusion of “health protection” in 7th EAP
- Health and Environment NGOs comment on Bisphenol A ban
- Health Care Can Help Lead the Fight Against Climate Change
- Health groups call for 40% target on carbon emissions
- Health impact of climate change not recognised in Parliamentary resolution
- Health impact of climate change recognised in EP resolution
- Health insurance group takes up environmental health
- Health leaders call for strong measures on climate change
- Hormone disrupting chemicals targeted to prevent chronic disease in the EU
- How fracking threatens public health, more research needed
- Hundreds of companies and local businesses back a green energy future for Europe
- Irish NGO health leader describes first-ever global Climate and Health Summit
- Les Trophées CEHAPE attribués aux projets environnementaux qui sauvent des vies d’enfants
- Lung health under threat from climate change and deteriorating air quality
- Media Advisory: COP17 Press Conf. on Health Leaders Call for Urgent Action on Climate
- MEPs to be urged to address "missing link" in fight against cancer
- Mercury in Fish is a Global Health Concern
- Message to EU delegation: Don’t forget the health dividend
- Ministers worried about hazardous chemicals cocktails, but postpone action
- More guidance for countries on EU pesticide legislation needed
- Negociaciones sobre Cambio Climático en Barcelona, 2-6 Noviembre 2009 Líderes del Sector Salud solicitan medidas decisorias sobre el cambio climático
- NGOs urge Commission to come forward with a second EU Environment and Health Action Plan
- On the road to Durban and beyond: are you with us?
- Our daily poison: Film investigates the causes of our cancer epidemic
- Parliament clears final hurdle towards EU pesticide blacklist
- Press Release: European doctor launches warning of “grave health consequences”
- Press statement: Bedroom dust used to urge EU to act more urgently on REACH
- Protect children by cutting exposure to harmful chemicals
- Reaction to new EU vehicle noise limits proposal
- Report paves way for ban on "gender bender" hormone-disrupting chemicals
- Respiratory doctors call for EU action on climate change
- Response to European Commission’s position on chemical mixtures released today
- Shale gas: A dangerous experiment on the environment and human health
- Study charts path for better protection from harmful "chemical mixtures"
- Study offers warning of negative immune effects from PFC exposure
- Tackling the twin threats of climate change and the global health gap
- TIME TO PULL MERCURY OUT OF FILLINGS say HEALTH AND GREEN GROUPS to W.H.O.
- Toxic Christmas gift: Council decides to keep hazardous biocides on market
- Traffic noise health impacts second only to air pollution, new WHO report says
- UNFCCC COP17/CMP7 HEAL Delegation & Partners
- Vassiliou welcomes health community’s "Prescription" on climate change
- Wedstrijd beloont milieuproject dat levens van kinderen redt
- Wedstrijd beloont milieuproject dat levens van kinderen redt Giftig speelgoed, asbest in scholen en vervuild drinkwater
- Week without pesticides becomes "Pesticides Alternatives Week"
- Which endocrine disrupting insecticides are children exposed to everyday?
- WHO prioritises environmental and occupational cancer risks
- Winner of “Health and Environment Film Prize” announced
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2. Letters
- Energy efficiency targets for a healthy climate, clean air and healthy housing
- EU leaders asked to ensure a high ambition level in the revised Gothenburg Protocol on air pollution
- Green 10 letter: EU deliberations on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)
- Green 10 letter: Green Stimulus Measures needed to Exit Crisis, warn leading environmental groups
- HEAL letter on ENVI discussion on Energy Efficiency – Indoor air quality and health concerns
- HEAL response to EURACOAL statement
- Health risks from climate change highlighted in joint letter to the WHO
- Joint letter to EFSA on mercury in fish
- Joint letter to MEPs on air pollution from ships
- Joint letter: Last chance to develop strong treaty to reduce mercury exposure
- Joint letter: Support for phase-outs of mercury use in dentistry in the EU and globally to EU Environment Ministers
- Joint NGO letter on the 7th EAP to EU environment ministers
- Joint NGO letter to Commissioners on EDCs
- Joint NGO letter to President Barroso and Commissioners: Call to reduce our exposure to EDCs
- Joint NGO letter: Comments to DG ENV on the analysis underpinning the review of EU air quality policy
- Joint NGO letter: Support phase-out of mercury use in dentistry in the EU and globally
- Joint NGO letter: Turning promises into action: achieving the 20% by 2020 energy savings target
- Key issues to increase the chances of the next MFF delivering on Europe 2020 priorities
- Letter: ENVI vote on draft report Leinen on 7 EAP – strengthen health and environment concerns to members of the ENVI committee
- NGOs call for EU air quality limit values to be enforced by the European Commission
- Open letter on EU research funding for 2014-2020
- Open letter to Polish Prime Minister Tusk
- Open letter: Civil Society alarmed by the prospect of regressive Common Agricultural Policy reform
- To: Commissioner Potocnik
Re: Upcoming Commission decision on the revision of the National Emissions Ceilings Directive (NEC) - To: MEPs
Re: MEPs called upon to protect EU transparency - To: MEPs
Re: Ensure the strength of REACH in the EP plenary vote - To: Ministre de l’Ecologie du Développement durable, du Transport et du Logement
Re: Contribution des médecins et ONGs en amont du Conseil européen des Ministres de l’environnement du 21 juin 2011 - To: AGRI Committee
Re: Better protection of vulnerable groups, in particular children, is needed against the hazardous health effects of pesticides - To: Attachés of the Competitivness Council working group Re: Benefits to public health and national budgets of stringent noise standards
- To: Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary General;
Dr Margaret Chan, World Health Organization Director General
Re: Call for diseases and risk factors to be considered - To: Commissioner Dalli.
Re: EU Commission priority for pesticide reduction and better guidance for EU Member States implementation of National Action Plans - To: Commissioner Dimas
Re: Concerns about the current status and future challenges in implementing the EU Action Plan on Environment and Health - To: Commissioner Janez Potočnik and Commissioner John Dalli Re: NGO comments on the RAC and SEAC opinion on the Danish phthalate dossier
- To: Commissioner Potocnik
Re: NGO call for a prioritisation of air quality action (revision of the National Emission Ceilings and the Sulphur Content of Marine Fuels Directives) - To: Commissioners Dimas & Verheugen
Re: Ensure REACH is not vulnerable to weakening in future - To: ECOFIN
Re: Council debate on the EU’s Sustainable Development Strategy, 5 May - To: EFSA
Re: Potential adverse health effects associated with BPA exposures - To: Energy & Environment Ministers
Re: Turning EU Effort Sharing Proposal into EU Benefit Sharing Agreement “Climate Action and Renewable Energy Package” - To: ENVI
Re: ENVI Exchange of Views on Biocides Regulation - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Better protection of vulnerable groups, in particular children, is needed against the health effects of pesticides - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Call for defending existing health standards on airpollution (Krahmer report) - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Issue for Commission Designate Hearings - Weakening of DG Environment - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Matsakis Mercury Report - To: ENVI Committee
Re: NGO position on the draft Klaß report concerning the biocide regulation - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Please ensure the recognition of the role of environmental and occupational factors in cancer and the primary prevention of cancer - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Proposals for amendment of the “European Parliament Resolution on the EU strategy for the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change (COP 15) - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Proposals to amend the European Parliament draft report on the “Commission White Paper: ‘Adapting to climate change: Towards a European framework for action’ (2009/2152 (INI)) - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Protect children’s health with REACH - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Report on the proposed regulation on food information to consumers - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Vote on Report-KORHOLA on Aarhus Convention and EU Institutions, next week. - To: ENVI Committee
Re: Exchange of views on the draft report on the “Analysis of options to move beyond 20% greenhouse gas emission reductions and assessing the risk of carbon leakage” - To: Environment & Health Ministers
Re: WHO Budapest conference - Our future and our children’s future needs you - To: EU Commissioners
Re: Commission communication ‘Reducing the climate change impact of aviation’ - To: EU Commissioners
Re: Thematic Environmental Strategies - To: EU Environment & Health Ministers
Re: Council Conclusions on the Mid Term Review of the EU Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010 - To: EU Environment & Health Ministers
Re: EU air quality standards - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Council conclusions for action towards phasing out releases and uses of mercury - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Council discussion on DECA-BDE exemption - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Effort Sharing Proposal of the “Climate Action and Renewable Energy Package” 5th June 2008 Council Meeting Dear EU - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Informal Environment Council: your exchange on air quality and urban environment, 22 April - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Input to Environment Council meeting 21 October Council conclusions on the Preparation of the EU Position for COP 15 - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Input to Environment Council meeting 24 June - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Supporting a broad export ban and safe storage of mercury - To: EU Environment Ministers
Re: Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides (COM(2006)372) - To: EU Health Commissioner, John Dalli; and
President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso;
European Commissioner for the Environment, Janez Potocnik;
Members of the European Parliament;
WHO focal points for environment and health
Re: United Nations High-level Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), 19-20 September 2011 - To: EU Health Ministers
Re: Brominated Flame Retardants: Rising Levels of Concern - To: EU Members States’ experts
Re: Calling for a wide mercury export ban and safe temporary storage of surplus mercury - To: European Commission
Re: Consultation regarding the Review of RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC - To: European Commission
Re: Commission review of the availability of safer alternatives to Measuring Devices containing mercury - To: IMCO Committee
Re: Better protection of vulnerable groups, in particular children, is needed against the hazardous health effects of pesticides - To: IMCO Committee
Re: NGO vote recommendations in view of the vote in the IMCO-Committee on the amendments to the Commission’s proposal for a biocide regulation (COM 0267) - To: ITRE Committee
Re: Better protection of vulnerable groups, in particular children, is needed against the hazardous health effects of pesticides - To: ITRE Committee
Re: NGO vote recommendations in view of the vote in the ITRE-Committee on the amendments to the Commission’s proposal for a biocidal regulation (COM 0267) - To: Jose Barroso, President of the European Commission
Re: Thematic strategy on air quality - To: Jose Barroso, President of the European Commission
Re: Midterm review of the 2001 Common Transport Policy white paper - To: Jose Manuel D. Barroso, President of the European Commission,
Commissioners and services of the European Commission,
Members of the European Parliament,
Representatives of Member States
Re: Groups call for public research to benefit society, not big business - To: Lidl Supermarket
Re: Pesticides reduction standards in all Lidl countries - To: Members of the Council Working Group for Environment.
Re. Joint NGO recommendations for the forthcoming considerations of Council Working Group for Environment concerning the biocide regulation (COM (2009) 267) - To: Members of the EP’s Environment Committee Re: ENVI discussion on vehicle noise – comments from health, transport and environment groups
- To: Members of the European Parliament
Re: Plenary Vote on the “Analysis of options to move beyond 20% greenhouse gas emission reductions and assessing the risk of carbon leakage” - To: MEPs
Re: Call for restriction of BFRs and PVC in electrical and electronic equipment in the RoHS revision - To: MEPs
Re: Support the compromise amendments, eliminate mercury from consumer mersuring devices - To: MEPs
Re: Calling for a robust mercury export ban and safe surplus storage regulation - To: MEPs
Re: NGO recommendations for the EP vote on ENVI report (Biocide Regulation) - To: MEPs
Re: Plenary vote on the “Motion for a Resolution on the EU strategy for the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change (COP 15)”, 25 November - To: MEPs
Re: Plenary Vote, Second Reading on Report-KORHOLA on Aarhus Convention and EU Institutions, EP January session - To: MEPs
Re: Strengthen health protection and include health co-benefits in adaptation policy - To: MEPs
RE: Ulmer Report on the Medical Devices Directive (93/42/EEC) - To: MEPs Corbey and Krahmer
EU thematic stategy on air quality and ambient air quality legislation - To: Minister of Health for France
Re: Response to statement about BPA - To: Ministers of Agriculture, Environment & Health
Re: Call to reject EU authorisation of 6 unacceptable pesticides - To: Ministers of Environment, Agriculture & Consumers
Re: Rejection of authorisation of 8 unacceptable pesticides under Council Directive 91/414/EEC - To: President Barroso
Re: EU should support the stricter IMO regulation of the sulphur content in marine fuels in European ECAs - To: President Barroso
Re: Europe’s emissions reduction target to the UNFCCC Secretariat, 31 January 2010 - To: President Barroso
Re: Improving health representation in climate change discussions and outcomes - To: President Barroso
Re: The Roadmap for a low carbon economy must include the 30% GHG target and stress health benefits and healthcare savings - To: President Barroso
Re: Unacceptable move on Euro VI air pollution standards heavy goods vehicles - To: President Barroso and the EU Commissioners
Re: Your upcoming College discussion on further measures to reduce air pollution in the EU - To: President van Rompuy
Re: Stepping up the EU’s climate ambition could be a green way out of Europe’s economic blues - To: Spanish Presidency of the EU
Re: Europe’s emissions reduction target to the UNFCCC Secretariat - To: The European Commission
Re: The Commission consultation on the Green Paper on a European Citizens’ Initiative - To: UNFCCC National focal points
Re: Input to international climate talks in Cancun - To: UNFCCC National focal points
Re: Input to Intersessional informal consultations on climate change, 10 – 14 August
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3. Position papers
- Call on industry to provide substitution case stories
- CHEM Trust & HEAL’s view on the report of the ED Expert Advisory Group
- COP17 Durban: Protecting Public Health From Climate - A Global Call to Action
- COP17: Durban Declaration on Climate and Health
- Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals under REACH: Four Priority Areas for Regulation
- EU vehicle noise emission standards: health evidence and concerns
- Final assessment of the 6th Community Environment Action Programme: Written Submission on stakeholder consultation
- Green 10 Position paper:
Nature and health briefing for the Parliament - Green 10 Position paper: A revised sustainable development strategy for the EU
- Green 10 Position paper: Policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged union 2007 - 2013
- Green 10 Position paper: Sustainability - Our vision for a new EU budget
- Green 10 Position paper: Ten green principles for the EU budget review
- Green 10 Position paper: The creation of a high level group on competitiveness
- Green 10 Position paper: The EU’s new Constitution - assessing the Environmental Perspective
- HEAL Briefing paper: Children’s health and the environment
- HEAL Briefing paper: Reducing cancer through environmental policy change
- HEAL Consultation response: European Commission Green Paper on Climate Change 2007
- HEAL Consultation response: discussion document for a health strategy – “Health in Europe: a strategic approach”
- HEAL Consultation response: Response to EC consultation on access to documents
- HEAL Consultation response: the European Transparency Initiative (ETI) Green Paper
- HEAL Consultation response: ‘The European Environment & Health Action Plan 2004-2010” (short version)
- HEAL Consultation response: ‘The European Environment & Health Action Plan 2004-2010” (full version)
- HEAL position paper on the 7th EU Environment Action Programme
- HEAL Position paper: Cancer Prevention and the Environment - examples and opportunities for national and EU policy makers
- HEAL Position paper: Children´s special health vulnerability to environmental hazards and REACH
- HEAL Position paper: Community strategy concerning mercury
- HEAL Position paper: EU climate change and health
- HEAL Position paper: EU thematic strategy and air quality health limit values
- HEAL Position Paper: Preventing cancer through environmental policy change
- HEAL Position paper: ‘The European Environment & Health Action Plan 2004-2010’
- HEAL reponse to public consultation on 7th EAP
- HEAL response to consultation on chronic disease policy
- HEAL response to consultation on Rio +20
- HEAL response to public consultation on an EU strategy on adaptation to climate change
- HEAL response to public consultation on EU noise policy
- HEAL response to the UN Rio+20 consultation
- HEAL submission to the consultation process on the EIB energy lending policy review
- Joint declaration: A Sound Investment to Reduce Vehicle Noise
- Joint NGO comments on review of air policies
- Joint NGO comments on the analysis underpinning the review of EU air pollution policy review
- Joint NGO recommendations for EP ENVI Committee’s 2nd reading on the biocide regulation (COM (2009) 267)
- Joint Position Paper on new EU vehicles noise limits
- Joint position paper: NGO priorities for the review of the Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution
- Joint position paper: NGO recommendations: Encouraging 3rd Party participation in the REACH authorisation process
- Joint position statement on shale gas, shale oil, coal bed methane and ‘fracking’
- Joint statement: Calling EFSA to reform
- NGO Consultation response: RoHS Directive - technical changes to the scope of the directive, definitions and facilitating implementation
- NGO Interventions: WHO Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health
- NGO Position Paper on RoHS revision
- NGO Position paper: Cancun Climate and Health Statement (ENGLISH)
- NGO Position paper: Cancun Climate and Health Statement (French)
- NGO Position paper: Cancun Climate and Health Statement (SPANISH)
- NGO Position paper: Climate change and health - Engaging the regions Conference Recommendations
- NGO Position paper: Five key demands to improve REACH
- NGO Position paper: Pesticides and health
- NGO Position paper: Priorities for REACH second reading (EN)
- NGO Position paper: Priorities for REACH second reading (ES)
- NGO Position paper: Priorities for REACH second reading (FR)
- NGO Position paper: Requirements for the proper regulation of chemicals with endrocrine disrupting properties
- NGO Position paper: Sixtieth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe
- NGOs Position Paper on the EC proposal for a Medical Device Regulation COM(212) 542
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4. Publications
- A CHEM Trust and HEAL briefing: Regulating chemicals with endocrine disrupting properties
- A vote for my child’s health - Please do not spray hazardous pesticides where my child eats, plays and learns
- Acting now for a better Health - 30 % Reduction Target for EU Climate Policy (Informational Postcard)
- Acting now for a better Health - 30 % Reduction Target for EU Climate Policy (Report)
- Background Paper: Health impacts of lignite-fired power plants: The German-Polish region Lusatia
- Background Paper: Health impacts of lignite-fired power plants: The German-Polish region Lusatia (German)
- Better health through a healthy environment
- Bisphenol A in plastics: It’s making us sick
- Breast Cancer - an environmental disease, the case for prevention
- Breast Cancer and exposure to hormonally active chemicals: An appraisal of the scientific evidence
- Breast Cancer: Factors influencing the risk of breast cancer – established and emerging
- Breast Cancer: Preventing the preventable
- Briefing for policy makers: The health benefits of greenhouse gas reduction policies
- Brominated Flame Retardants: Assessing DecaBDE Debromination in the Environment
- Cancun Climate and Health Statement (Report)
- CEHAPE Awards 2007: Environmental-friendly measures that improve child health
- CEHAPE Awards 2010: Environmental measures to improve children’s health
- Chemical Cocktails: harmful mixtures upset our hormones (Leaflet)
- Chemical substances: invisible and unknown
- Chemicals beyond control ensuring EU chemicals policy protects human health and the environment
- CHEMICALS HEALTH MONITOR - Bookmark to address the link between chemicals, health and disease
- CHEMICALS HEALTH MONITOR - Postcard to address the link between chemicals, health and disease
- CHEMICALS HEALTH MONITOR - Report to address the link between chemicals, health and disease
- Chemicals in our food and consumer products – A missing link in the epidemics of obesity and diabetes? (Leaflet and Conclusions & Summaries)
- Choosing our future - For a healthier life, consume chemicals in moderation!
- Clearing the air: indoor air quality makes all the difference
- Clearing up Misconceptions about Mercury and Health
- Climate change and Health : Protecting the most vulnerable
- Climate Change and Health Good Practice Award: Competition Entries
- Climate change and the lungs - Fact Sheet for Adults & Children
- Climate change may be hazardous to your health
- Cut back on Pesticides for healthier lives
- Cut emissions, boost health
- Damp and Mould: Health risks, prevention and remedial actions (Brochure)
- Damp Mould: Directory of Agencies In the European Region Providing Information on Damp and Mould to the Public
- Dental sector as a source of Mercury contamination – Conference Report
- Electromagnetic fields – worries and uncertainties
- Environment and Health in Europe - Advocacy and Capacity Building Training Programme Report
- Environmental Justice: Listening to women and children
- EU Health Forum Workshop: Policy Recommendations Integrating Environment and Health policy towards better health outcomes (Report)
- Fact sheet: A healthy environment for our children (DE)
- Final Report on capacity building workshops on EU and Pan European environment and health policies
- G10 - 10 simple steps to help halt biodiversity loss by 2010
- Green 10 - Off Target: European Commission 2004-2009 Environmental Progress Report & Lessons for the next Commission
- Green 10 Briefing for the European Parliament - Climate change
- Green 10 Environment at the heart of Europe: An environmental roadmap for 2009-2014 the role of the European Parliament
- Green 10 Face the Future
- Green 10: The role of the European Parliament 2009 - 2014
- Green 10: A programme for the Sustainable Development of the European Union
- Halting the child brain drain: Why we need to tackle global mercury contamination
- Harmful chemicals in products you buy? Your right to know
- Harmful Plastic Softener (DEHP) in medical devices
- HEAL activities on Youth Participation and CEHAPE 2004-2007
- HEAL Annual Review 2005
- HEAL Annual Review 2006
- HEAL Annual Review 2008
- HEAL Annual Review 2009
- HEAL Annual Review 2010
- HEAL Annual Review 2011
- HEAL fact sheet - Chronic disease and environment
- HEAL Newsflash - April 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - December 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - February - March 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - February 2013
- HEAL Newsflash - January 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - June 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - March 2013
- HEAL Newsflash - May 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - October 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - September 2012
- HEAL Newsflash - Summer 2012
- Health and Environment Primer
- Health and fiscal co-benefits of emissions reductions: a summary for negotiators (Briefing)
- Healthy hospitals, healthy planet, healthy people
- Hydraulic fracturing of shale gas: a real scandal!
- Indoor air pollution and the lungs – Fact Sheet for Adults & Children
- Introducing the GREEN 9 group of environmental NGOs active at EU level
- Investigating chemicals in your school - toolkit
- Invisible burden - Good reasons to get rid of PBT chemicals
- It’s our world, our future too: Young people’s voices on environment and health priorities
- Making the case for environmental justice in Europe
- Male Reproductive Health Disorders and the Potential Role of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (Sharpe report)
- Managing Small Mercury Spills
- Men under threat Report: The decline in male reproductive health
- Men Under Threat: How the decline in male reproductive health may be linked to exposure to chemicals
- Mercury and Dental Amalgams
- Mercury and Fish Consumption
- Mercury and Health
- Mercury and Vaccines
- Mercury in Health Care
- Mercury: Global burden and risk to childhood skills
- Nanotechnology and Health Risks
- Nature & Health: Green 10 Briefing for the European Parliament
- Navigating REACH: An activists’ guide to using and improving the new EU chemicals legislation
- Neurotox Briefing: Chemicals compromising our children
- Outdoor air pollution and the lungs - Fact Sheet for Adults & Children
- Pesticides - a toxic education? A survey of pesticides in UK schools (Report)
- Pesticides in schools (Guide)
- Pesticides in schools (Leaflet)
- Postcard: What’s good for climate is good for health
- Public Health & Climate change (Leaflet)
- Questions & Answers: Moving Beyond 20% - How reducing greenhouse gas emissions benefits people’s health in the EU
- Quiet please: Better health through strong EU regulation of road and rail traffic noise (Brochure)
- REACH Economic facts and figures
- REACH My voice: how you can demand better protection of human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals
- REACH Public Briefing: What will the new EU chemicals legislation deliver for public health?
- Report: Environmental Track Record for the 2010-2012 European Commission - Off Their Game
- Report: The Unpaid Health Bill - How coal power plants make us sick
- Resources on cancer and the environment - compiled by HEAL (Document)
- Shale gas: Unconventional and unwanted: the case against shale gas
- Sick of Chemicals : A review of the evidence
- Six steps to pesticide reduction: A HEAL toolkit for communities and individuals wishing to reduce local pesticide use
- Submitting Mercury Sphygmomanometers
- The co-benefits to health of a strong EU climate change policy
- The EU Environment and Health Action Plan (EHAP): Assessment and Outlook for future action
- The European Example: What Have We Learned about Health and the Environment?
- The Parliament Magazine: Health Non-communicable diseases - Environmental factors
- Towards Healthy Environments for Children: Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about breastfeeding in a contaminated environment
- Ville Zero Pesticides: Pour que nos enfants ne nous accusent pas
- Which pesticides are used in my School? (Survey)
- Zero Mercury Key issues and policy recommendations for the EU Strategy on Mercury
- ‘Could Try Harder’ A mid-term report on the European Commission’s environmental record
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6. References
- Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Agriculture and Cancer: A need for action - International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)
Declaration for a Toxics-Free Future - Andreas Kortenkamp
The Prague Declaration on Endocrine Disruption - BMJ Climate, Security and Health statement
- California Medication Association
Resolution on Chemicals Policy for California - Canadian Cancer Society
Environment, Cancer and You - Chapel Hill BPA Expert Panel Consensus Statement
Integration of Mechanisms, Effects in Animals and Potential to Impact Human Health - ChemTrust
A review of the role of pesticides play in some cancers: Children, farmers and pesticides users at risk? - Climate and Health Council
Health and fiscal co-benefits of emissions reductions: a summary for negotiators at Cancun - Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer and the Environment - Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Consensus Statement on Cancer and the Environment - Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative Scientific and Policy Consensus Statements on Environmental Factors - Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Vallombrosa Consensus Statement on Environmental contaminants and human fertility compromise - Collegium Ramazzini
Call for Action : Control of Biocides in the European Union - Consensus Paper: Developmental Origins of Non-Communicable Diseases and Dysfunctions: Implications for Research and Public Health
- Durban Declaration on Climate and Health
- Endocrine Society
Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement - Environment Leaders’ Summit of the Eight
Declaration of the Environment Leaders of the Eight on Children’s Environmental Health - European Respiratory Society - 10 principles for clean air
- European Respiratory Society
European Lung White Book - European Respiratory Society
Position Statement, Climate change and respiratory disease - Helsinki Statement: Is endocrine disruption within REACH?
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Climate Change 2007 synthesis report. Summary for policy makers - International Society of Doctors for the Environment
Declaration on Children, their health and their environment - International Society of Doctors for the Environment
Position paper on Climate Change and Human Health - Letter to EFSA from scientists and NGOs
Re: Potential adverse health effects associated with BPA exposures - Ontario College of Family Physicians
Systematic review of Pesticide Human Health Effects - Our Stolen Future
- Paris Appeal
International Declaration on diseases due to chemical pollution - Paris Appeal: International Declaration on Diseases due to chemical pollution
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Kortenkamp
State of the Art Report on Mixture Toxicity - Professor Andreas Kortenkamp
Breast cancer and exposure to hormonally active chemicals: An appraisal of the scientific evidence - Professor Richard Sharpe
Male Reproductive Health Disorders and the Potential Role of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals - Standing Committee of European Doctors
Health and environment (REACH) - State of the Art of the Assessment of Endocrine Disruptors, Final Report
- The Asturias Pledge: A new call to action on environmental and occupational cancer prevention
- The Faroes Statement
Human Health Effects of Developmental Exposure to Chemicals in Our Environment - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Fourth Assessment Report - The Lancet Series
Managing the health effects of climate change - US President’s Cancer Panel
Environmentally caused cancers are ’grossly underestimated’ and ’needlessly devastate American lives.’ - Various scientists
Prague Declaration on endocrine disruptors - WHO
Air quality guidelines - global update 2005 - WHO Europe & European Environment Agency
Children Health and Environment: A Review of Evidence - WHO Europe
Guidelines for indoor air quality : dampness and mould - WHO Europe
Guidelines for indoor air quality: selected pollutants - WHO Europe
Parma Declaration on Environment and Health - World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA)
Resolution on “Safer Chemical Policies” - World Medical Association
Declaration of Delhi on Health and Climate Change - World Medical Association
Statement on Environmental Degradation and Sound Management of Chemicals
- Collaborative on Health and the Environment
- 7. Media coverage
- 8. Projects
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