Health and Environment Alliance

Letter: Health groups call for support for European Commission’s proposal for non-renewal of five endocrine disrupting pesticides

9th October 2023

HEAL calls on governments to support the European Commission's proposal for non-renewal of five endocrine disrupting pesticides.

Letter: Health groups across Europe call on governments to ban glyphosate to safeguard public health

9th October 2023

HEAL and eight of its members and health partners have written to European agriculture, environment, and health ministers to urge their governments to support a complete phase-out of glyphosate.

373 civil society groups urge leaders to take ambitious action to phase out world’s most dangerous pesticides

25th September 2023

373 civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations from 74 countries urged leaders at a historic global conference to act with urgency to phase out Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs), a particular group of pesticides that cause the most severe harm to human health and the environment and are considered too dangerous for use.

Letter: Health groups urge EU member states to support the non-renewal of glyphosate’s market license

12th September 2023

HEAL, ISDE Italy and the Belgian Independent Health Insurance Funds call on European governments to rely on independent scientific evidence and support a full ban of glyphosate’s market license, ahead of a meeting between member states’ representatives in the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF) taking place on 15 September.

Letter to EU Health Commissioner: Stop the reapproval of glyphosate due to major deficiencies in carcinogenicity assessment

11th September 2023

Health groups’ letter to members of the European Parliament: support the Lopez report

7th September 2023

Today, the health groups Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations (EFA), European Respiratory Society (ERS), International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Europe, Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) and Mutualités Libres/Onafhankelijke Ziekenfondsen sent a letter to all members of the European Parliament.

Aufruf des Gesundheitssektors an Bundeskanzler Scholz anlässlich des Internationalen Tags der Sauberen Luft

7th September 2023

Die Deutsche Allianz Klimawandel und Gesundheit e.V. (KLUG) und die Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) wenden sich deshalb am Internationalen Tag der Sauberen Luft in einem offenen Brief an Herrn Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz und fordern ihn auf, sich stärker für bessere Luftqualität einzusetzen.

Letter to Ursula von der Leyen on the nomination of Wopke Hoekstra as Climate Commissioner

5th September 2023

The Green 10, of which HEAL is part of, has written a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, to express their concern about the nomination of the Dutch Designate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra as Climate Commissioner:

Advocating for a swift coal phase out in Turkey for health

30th June 2023

Following new evidence of the health economic benefits of a phase out of coal power generation, HEAL has contacted decision-makers in Turkey, to underline that a swift phase out is…

Letter to EU Health Commissioner: 10 demands to urgently address shortcomings and flaws in the EU pesticide authorisation system

13th June 2023

83 civil society groups, including HEAL, urge the EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety to respond to the unfulfilled requests from the EU Parliament to improve Europe's current pesticide authorisation system.

Letter to Members of the EU Parliament: No backward step in EU Pesticides Regulation

13th June 2023

83 civil society groups, including HEAL, urge Members of EU Parliament to recall the Parliament's requests to the Commission and member states to improve the existing pesticide regulation in a plenary vote in January 2019.

Letter to MEPs: Advancing on the implementation of the Farm to Fork strategy for better health and long-term benefits for farmers and everyone

9th May 2023

Ahead of a debate on the role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector, HEAL urges members of the European Parliament to support the implementation of the Farm to Fork strategy and to adopt a strong health-protective Pesticides Regulation (SUR).

Lettre ouverte : Il faut une publication de la révision de REACH sans plus de retards

18th April 2023

Des ONG françaises et européennes écrivent ce jour à Elisabeth Borne pour l’inciter à air en faveur d’une révision rapide de REACh, le règlement européen phare sur les produits chimiques.…

Green 10 letter to Commissioner Breton on boosting the green transition of the EU’s industry and upholding environmental and health safeguards

17th April 2023

The Green 10 have sent a letter to Commissioner Breton, following a recent meeting of the group with him on boosting the green transition of the EU’s industry and upholding environmental and health safeguards - the letter focuses on the need to kickstart the revision of REACH, the EU chemicals regulatory framework, by June 2023, as well as Net Zero Industry and Critical Raw Materials Acts, where the Commission has to set clear conditions to respect climate, wider environmental, and social objectives.

Open Letter to the European Commission: Nanomaterials in everyday products – results from recent testing and concrete measures to inform and protect citizens and ecosystems from nano-related risks

17th March 2023

Seventeen NGOs, including HEAL, wrote a joint letter to the European Commission on nanomaterials in everyday products; results from recent testing and concrete measures to inform and protect citizens and ecosystems from nano-related risks

Joint letter to ENVI MEPs: Health organisations’ recommendations to step up on clean air for health with science-based air quality standards

17th March 2023

The European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety is 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. Today, HEAL, together with six more health organisations, has written to members of the committee, urging them tostep up on the European Commission’s proposal, to reduce ill-health and health cost swiftly and significantly.

Letter from Europe’s environmental NGOs on the cars CO2 deal

13th March 2023

HEAL and others have written to German chancellor Scholz and vice-chancellor Habeck with concern regarding the recent political backpedalling and confusion created by the German government that has led to the postponement of the Council vote on the new CO2 standards for cars and vans. The NGOs have called on them to stand firm and confirm the support of your government for the existing agreement without further delay.

Joint letter to Executive Vice-President Vestager on Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework

1st March 2023

ClientEarth, CAN Europe, CEE Bankwatch, E3G and HEAL have sent a joint letter to Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager concerning the leaked draft Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework (“TCTF”) and our concerns by the direction taken.

NGO Letter to the European Commission: Need to update REACH information requirements

27th February 2023

Several NGOs, including HEAL, sent a letter to Executive Vice President Timmermans and Commissioners Breton, Sinkevičius and Kyriakides in February 2023 to call them for an update of REACH information requirements.

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.

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