Exactly one year after the World Health Organization (WHO), after a systematic review of the science, published new Global Air Quality Guidelines with recommendations for maximum concentrations of the major air pollutants, more than 100 organisations in 17 EU countries have called on their health and environment ministers to save lives and protect nature from air pollution with science-based EU air quality standards.
HEAL and over 35 organisations urge member states to defend the proposal and to ensure the measures adopted meet the ambitions set out in the EU Plastics Strategy and EU Green Deal commitments.
The joint statement by Green10, EuroNatur and Clientearth highlights that Europe must find the right balance between accelerated renewable deployment, energy efficiency, public participation, and nature protection. Read the full…
HEAL, together with the German Alliance on Climate Change and Health (KLUG e.V.), the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), the German Public Health Association (DGPH) and KlimaDocs e.V. has today sent a letter to Members of European Parliament calling on them to stop classifying wood as a renewable energy source in RED III and to end subsidies for wood as an energy source.
Nine health and environmental groups have written to the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection regarding the upcoming proposal to restrict Bisphenol A and structurally related bisphenols of similar concern under the REACH Regulation.
58 organisations across Europe are calling on representatives of national governments and members of the PAFF Committee to adopt without delay the Implementation Regulation harmonising the content and format of the pesticide use records.
The letter calls on MEPs in the committee to no longer classify wood as a renewable energy source in the new RED III and to stop subsidies for wood as an energy source.
HEAL has sent a letter to Members of European Parliament, calling to keep the EU Taxonomy fossil gas free for better health - vote against the delegated act. The much…
HEAL has sent a letter to EU energy ministers ahead of their meeting on 27 June 2022 calling on them to end the EU’s fossil fuel dependency for better health.
The Green 10 have received a reply from the European Commission to a joint letter on withdrawing the Taxonomy Complementary Delegated Act from 16 March 2022.
The Green 10 have written to Vice-President Timmermans in advance of the publication of the REPowerEU package on 18 May: We strongly support accelerating renewables as part of the EU’s…
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…
The Green 10 have sent a letter to European Commission President Von der Leyen, with copy to Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal Timmermans and Commissioner for Energy Simson,…
The European Commission has sent a reply to a Green 10 letter on the taxonomy complementary delegated act, sent on 28 January 2022. The reply can be found here.
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…
More than 60 health and environment groups have written to EU Commission President von der Leyen, Executive Vice-President Timmermans and Commissioners Kyriakides, Wojciechowski and Sinkevicius to not postpone the much…
