The May 2025 vote on the European Parliament’s priorities for the next EU long-term budget (Multiannual Financial Framework 2028-2034) included many important health considerations, including on financing for measures to prevent climate change and biodiversity loss. Unfortunately, MEPs failed to include financing to address pollution and the related health impacts. The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) calls on earmarking at least 10% of the next EU budget for zero pollution objectives across various funding instruments.
HEAL, together with 7 other health and environmental civil society organisations has today sent a letter to Executive Vice-Presidents Timmermans and Dombrovskis, and Commissioner Sinkevičius, to call on them to translate the ambition stated in the very introduction of the Communication on the European Green Deal, namely that “the policy response must be bold and comprehensive and seek to maximise benefits for health, quality of life, resilience and competitiveness”, into concrete clean air steps in the 2020 Work Programme of the European Commission.
Read the full letter here
