29 NGOs strongly condemn attacks to weaken the ambition of the proposal for a Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation (SUR) and to delay its adoption.
Luftqualität: Gesundheit durch neue Standards schützen Hohe Risiken für akute und chronische Krankheiten durch Feinstaub und Stickstoffdioxid Hannover/Brüssel, 28.10.2022. Die Gefahr ist unsichtbar: Luftverschmutzung ist ein großer umweltbedingter Risikofaktor für die…
HEAL and 14 environmental health organisations call on European governments to keep pressing the European Commission to deliver the promised reforms of the REACH and CLP regulations, and to support the proposal for a new pesticide reduction law.
Joint letter by C40, Clean Cities Campaign, European Cyclists' Federation, Transport & Environment and HEAL, calling to Fully align EU limit values for pollutants with the global air quality guidelines…
The Green 10 wrote to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Vice President Frans Timmermans, Vice President Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, Commissioners Thierry Breton and Virginijus Sinkevičius to express their concern that the Commission’s Letter of Intent listing priority initiatives for 2023 failed to mention a number of the priority legislative files expected for the European Commission to publish in 2023 based on earlier plans by the European Commission.
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…
