Climate-related health impacts are shaped by decisions in all sectors, including housing, urban planning, energy, transport, agriculture, and environmental policies.
In delivering for clean air for health the role of member states is key: EU member states have to complete EU AAQD transposition into national law by 11 December 2026. In this countdown to clean air for health, HEAL is highlighting the ways the health community can become involved in transposing the AAQD into national law.
Join this webinar organised by HEAL and EFA and navigate with us through the different air and health information systems.
In a letter ahead of the publication of the European Commission work programme 2027, HEAL has sent a letter to President von der Leyen, to call on resetting this Commission for preventing disease and health cost in next year’s work programme, by withdrawing the Food and Feed Safety Omnibus proposal and refraining from proposing any further environmental and climate simplification proposals.
HEAL has repeatedly voiced concern that the simplification proposals in the area of environment put forward under this Commission will result in a weakening of key protection provisions, especially when it comes to chemicals and pesticides pollution. However, from recent statements we gather that President von der Leyen seem to be planning to double down on simplification instead of changing course, by inter alia urging EU member states to end “gold-plating” (that is the setting of additional protection requirements).
We consider that the urgent issue for the EU’s environmental and climate regulatory framework is not “simplification” but rather better implementation and enforcement, enabled by adequate funding through the next EU budget.
HEAL has sent a letter to members of the EP BUDG and CONT committees highlighting that it is crucial that the next EU budget provides the necessary investments for preventing disease and ill-health, and ensures adequate transparency and oversight on the tracking of this spending.
City administrator, civil society, and researchers met to discuss new findings on the health benefits of environmental policies in Brussels.
HEAL calls on EP ENVI and CoR ENVE to place particular emphasis on increasing public investments for disease prevention, health resilience to climate change, and pollution prevention in the next EU budget, for people's health in cities and regions.
Ahead of EU heads of states and governments discussing next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028-34 on 15-16 October 2026, HEAL has sent a letter calling to place particular emphasis on increasing public investments for disease prevention, health resilience to climate change and pollution prevention in the next EU budget.
Scientists and health groups have significant concerns that the Food and Feed Safety Simplification Omnibus proposal would weaken health protection in the EU.
HEAL has sent a letter to members of the European Parliament, ahead of their discussion on An ambitious Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028 - 2034 for a strong and resilient Europe, calling on decision makers to increase investments in climate resilience and pollution prevention for health.
HEAL Executive Director Genon K. Jensen will be at the European Health Forum Gastein, speaking at the session, Regulatory shield defending Europe’s brain’s health in a volatile environment.
The European Parliament resolution includes key points on cardiovascular health HEAL has raised repeatedly with decisionmakers.
European scientists and doctors have sent a letter urging the European Parliament to suspend the Food and Feed Safety Simplification Omnibus, until an independent scientific investigation on its health and environmental impacts has been conducted.
HEAL has submitted a response to the public consultation on the draft guidance on the application of the ‘do no significant harm’ principle under the 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)…
The European Court of Justice dismissed the appeal from pesticide manufacturers to challenge once again the non-renewal of the pesticide chlorpyrifos-methyl. Studies show that chlorpyrifos-methyl can impact brain development (developmental neurotoxicity) and cause DNA damage (genotoxicity) – both potentially leading to adverse effects across generations.
The Food and Feed Safety simplification omnibus proposal puts health at risk. Health groups have significant concerns that this proposal, as well as some amendments proposed by the co-legislators, would lead to a weakening of key health protective provisions...
Ahead of an exchange between EP envi committee members with Leena Ylä-Mononen, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA). HEAL has written a letter to MEPs in the committee, urgently calling to place health protection at the centre of EU climate action and step up the EU commitment for public investments.
Air pollution is the European Union's single greatest environmental health threat, contributing to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year and billions of euros in health-related costs...
HEAL is one of over 200 signatories of a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen urging her to make this fossil fuel crisis Europe's last, as she is preparing for her State of the European Union speech in September.
Watch the recording of the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) and the Dutch Parkinson's Association (De Parkinson Vereniging) for our upcoming science and policy webinar, “Pesticides and Parkinson's disease: the health impacts of regulatory decisions”
