Reply from European Commision to civil society letter calling to save lives, protect nature from air pollution with science-based revised EU air quality standards
On 22 March, HEAL, together with 35+ medical, health, environmental, public health civil society organisations has sent a letter to European Commission Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Commissioners Sinkevičius and Kyriakides, calling on them…
Letter: Civil society call to save lives, protect nature from air pollution with science-based revised EU air quality standards
HEAL, together with 35+ medical, health, environmental, public health civil society organisations has sent a letter to European Commission Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Commissioners Sinkevičius and Kyriakides, calling on them and…
Letter: Call for the Health Ministry to get engaged on clean air and support evidence-based air quality standards
HEAL has sent a letter to EU-27 health ministries to call on them to get engaged on clean air and support evidence-based air quality standards. The letter was accompanied by a…
Letter: Greater effort for clean air for health urgently needed
HEAL feedback on Air quality – revision of EU rules
Air pollution is the number one environmental threat to health in the European region and globally, leading to 400,000 premature deaths and hundreds of billions of euros in health costs…
An ambitious implementation of the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans to prevent ill-health and move towards zero pollution
Over 40 million health professionals urge G20 leaders to ensure a Healthy Recovery
On May 26, 2020, over 350 organisations representing over 40 million health professionals and over 4,500 individual health professionals from 90 different countries, wrote to the G20 leaders calling for…
Joint letter to EU institutions on COVID-19 response
HEAL is one of the signatories (together with WWF, BirdLife Europe, EEB, CEE Bankwatch, CAN Europe, Transport & Environment and NatureFriends International) of a joint letter to Commission President von…
Joint open letter: Principles for a #JustRecovery from COVID-19
HEAL is a signatory of a letter coordinated by 350, calling for a global and financial response to COVID-19 that ensures a just recovery, putting health, fairness, people and solidarity…
Joint letter to members of the Environment Council of the European Union on air quality action in 2020
The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), together with the European Federation of Allergy & Airways Diseases Patients´ Association (EFA), the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), the European Respiratory Society (ERS)…
Environment Ministers have to show commitment to EU action on air quality in 2020
Environmental health priorities for Croatia’s presidency of the Council of the European Union
Joint letter calling concrete clean air steps in European Commission’s 2020 Work Programme
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…