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Gesundheitsverbände fordern stärkere Anstrengungen zur Verbesserung der Luftqualität

23rd February 2023

Die Bundesärztekammer und die Gesundheitsverbände Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) und Deutsche Allianz Klimawandel und Gesundheit (KLUG) fordern dringende Maβnahmen, um die unterschätzte Krankheitslast durch Luftverschmutzung und insbesondere Feinstaub zu senken. Bei der aktuellen Überarbeitung der Luftqualitätsgrenzwerte auf EU-Ebene sollte sich die Bundesregierung für die vollständige Angleichung der Grenzwerte mit Empfehlungen der Weltgesundheitsorganisation bis 2030 einsetzen, damit Deutschland und die EU Vorreiter beim Gesundheitsschutz werden.

Joint letter to the REACH Committee: Restriction of Intentionally-added Microplastics, and Chemical Authorisation Concerns

23rd February 2023

Seventeen NGOs, including HEAL, wrote a joint letter to the REACH Committee ahead of their meeting on March 1st 2023, to urge the Committee to support a restriction that would include all microplastics, and to address other chemical authorisation concerns.

Groundbreaking cross-country media investigation reveals thousands of sites contaminated by PFAS around Europe, adding further urgency to enact EU-wide ban on ‘forever chemicals’

23rd February 2023

An unprecedented cross-country media investigation on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination around Europe - The Forever Pollution Project - reveals that more than 17,000 sites are contaminated by ‘forever chemicals’ around Europe.

REACH reform: HEAL’s key demands for health-protective upgrades of registration and evaluation

21st February 2023

The ATHLETE project holds its fifth consortium meeting – updates on exposome research and early life exposure

10th February 2023

Around 140 researchers representing 23 different partners from 12 countries gathered in Barcelona, Spain and online for the fifth annual consortium meeting of ATHLETE, an EU-funded project that aims to better understand how our environment can impact human health from pregnancy to adolescence by studying the human exposome.

Civil-society groups demand for a highly protective EU restriction on PFAS

Civil society groups demand a highly protective EU restriction on PFAS

7th February 2023

The EU Chemicals Agency (ECHA) published the draft proposal for an EU-wide restriction on the production and uses of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), starting a much needed process to restrict these 'forever chemicals'

Call for applications: Advocacy and Campaigns Officer (Health and Chemicals)

2nd February 2023

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is recruiting a new Advocacy and Campaigns Officer to implement advocacy and campaign action plans on key files of the Health and Chemicals Programme,…

An early coal phase-out in Poland can save lives, improve health and strengthen the economy

31st January 2023

As the Polish government is about to launch its update on its 2040 Energy Strategy (PEP), part three of HEAL’s ‘Curing Chronic Coal’ series, published today, shows that the earlier Poland phases out coal power, the greater the health benefits and saved health costs to society will be.

New HEAL videos explain the ABC for reforming EU rules on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of chemicals

27th January 2023

The EU CLP regulation defines how the European Union classifies and communicates about hazardous chemicals. Reforming this juggernaut legislation is a big opportunity to better protect health. Watch our new videos to learn why!

Pesticides and Health Impacts / Pestisitler ve Sağlığa Etkileri

26th January 2023

Pestisitlerin Sağlık Etkileri konusunda Türkiye sağlık sektöründen öneriler

Nine hazardous chemicals added to REACH’s blacklist: BPS, melamine, isobutylparaben, PFHpA, and more

24th January 2023

HEAL welcomes the addition of nine new substances to the candidate list of substances of very high concern (SVHC) under the REACH regulation. This poses immediate obligations on manufacturers and importers to declare if these substances are present in materials or products. More...

Chronic coal pollution

18th January 2023

Coal power generation is a chronic pollution for the environment, the climate and people’s health in the vicinity and far away from plants. HEAL focuses advocacy, knowledge sharing and engagement across the European region, and especially on the Western Balkans and Turkey. We also continue to advocate for a swift coal phase out in Poland, as the only country in the EU missing such a date.

Health-focused REACH reform

18th January 2023

The REACH legislation sets out how the European Union registers, evaluates, authorises and restricts chemicals. The sorely needed overhaul of this juggernaut of EU chemicals legislation is an opportunity to strengthen its effectiveness in protecting our health and the environment through better and earlier identification of hazardous chemicals.

French government announces national action plan on PFAS chemicals ahead of expected publication of EU-wide proposal for restrictions

17th January 2023

French authorities have today released the country’s first action plan specifically dedicated to PFAS, acknowledging the severe consequences that these ‘forever chemicals’ have on people’s health and the environment and the urgent need to reduce production.

HEAL contributor to WHO Europe roadmap on reducing noncommunicable diseases

13th January 2023

In December 2020, the Regional Director of the WHO Regional Office for Europe established the Advisory Council on Innovation for Noncommunicable Diseases (‎NCD Advisory Council)‎, on which HEAL’s Executive DIrector…

‘ÇİSİP’ – a joint project on health collaboration on climate change and environment in Turkey

1st January 2023

Since 2020, HEAL, together with HASUDER – the Association Of Public Health Specialists and Kocaeli University, Department of Public Health, has been coordinating the “Health Collaboration on Climate Change and…

Curing Chronic Coal: The health benefits of a 2030 coal phase out in Turkey

22nd December 2022

A new report by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) now highlights that phasing out coal power in Turkey earlier (by 2030) rather than later (by 2050) would produce tremendous…

Joint letter to EU environment ministers: Health groups’ recommendations to step up on clean air for health with science-based air quality standards

15th December 2022

HEAL, together with CPME, EFA, AIM, EPHA and Mutualites Libres, has today sent a joint letter to EU environment ministers who are currently considering the proposal to revise the EU’s ambient air quality directives (AAQD), a cornerstone for the protection of people’s health and the environment from air pollution...

HEAL General Assembly 2022

13th December 2022

For the first time since 2019, HEAL members came together in person in Brussels again, for the HEAL Annual General Assembly in October 2022. The HEAL secretariat and members spent…

An early coal phase-out in the Western Balkan can save lives, improve health and strengthen the economy

8th December 2022

A new report by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), published today, shows that phasing out coal power in the Western Balkan region by 2030 instead of 2050 will bring a…