Health and Environment Alliance

HEAL joins German NGOs to call for fast-track action programme on climate

20th October 2017

Signed by over 60 organisations with an environmental, faith, development or health background, a proposal for a fast-track climate action programme until 2020 has been shared with the German government today at the beginning of coalition talks.

Pollution causes nine million deaths per year worldwide reveals new and first of its kind Lancet report

20th October 2017

Pollution in the air, water, soil and in the workplace is linked to an estimated nine million deaths each year worldwide – equivalent to one in six (16%) of all deaths, according to a ground-breaking new report in the leading medical journal The Lancet.

European Parliament demands ambitious proposal to reduce citizens’ exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals

4th October 2017

The European Parliament today rejected a controversial European Commission proposal on identification criteria for endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) applauds the courageous decision to veto a proposal that lacks ambition and would fail to protect human health and the environment.

Générations Futures’ investigation: 53.3% of food samples analysed on French market contained glyphosate residues

14th September 2017

53.3% of cereal- and leguminous products that are widely available in French supermarkets contain traces of glyphosate, demonstrate test results from Générations Futures.

New rules hasten end for Europe’s dirtiest power plants

31st July 2017

Europe’s most polluting power plants, including many large coal-fired power stations, will be forced to clean up or close down thanks to new EU rules adopted today.

National governments must not use legal loopholes to hide failure on air quality

31st July 2017

Nine EU Member States have asked the European Commission for permission to pollute above national limits set in EU law.

World governments make citizens pay billions to destroy their own health

27th July 2017

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) has launched the report Hidden Price Tags: How ending fossil fuel subsidies would benefit our health providing the first-ever comparison of fossil fuel subsidies and the costs to health associated with air pollution from fossil fuels.

New Meta-analysis finds that among men from North America, Europe and Australia, sperm concentration has declined more than 50% in less than 40 years

26th July 2017

New research released today by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem points to an alarming decline in male reproductive health, and suggests worrying implications for male fertility and reproduction.

Giant weedkiller bottle torn down as Europe debates future of glyphosate

19th July 2017

Citizens toppled a giant glyphosate bottle at the Schuman roundabout outside the European Commission to symbolise the demand of over 1.3 million people across Europe calling for a ban of the controversial weedkiller.

NGOs acknowledge vote on first ever EDC criteria – Call on European Parliament to reject flawed criteria for sake of health

4th July 2017

Today, representatives of European member states from the EU pesticides committee adopted the criteria that are supposed to be used to identify endocrine disrupting chemicals (or EDCs) in the future.

Health groups criticise government report on diesel emissions for denying health impacts

28th June 2017

Defeat devices in diesel vehicles have been causing unduly high emission rates of nitrous oxides, which cause serious effects on public health in Germany. According to health experts these effects…

Over 250 non-government organisations launch alternative vision for Europe

20th June 2017

Brussels, June 20, 2017 – More than 250 non-government organisations from across Europe have today released an alternative vision for a more democratic, just and sustainable Europe. [1] Intended to…

EU finally recognises Bisphenol A as an endocrine disruptor for human health

16th June 2017

Helsinki/Brussels, 16 June 2017 - The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) today recognised bisphenol A (BPA) as a substance of very high concern because of its endocrine disrupting properties for humans.…

How does your real-time air quality rate?

15th June 2017

Ostrava, 15 June 2017 - HEAL does community monitoring on the Road to WHO Environment and Health Ministerial conference To increase citizens’ engagement and more speedy action to improve Europe’s…

More than one million Europeans stand up against glyphosate

15th June 2017

Fastest-growing European Citizens’ Initiative demonstrates huge societal concern about pesticides Brussels, 15 June 2017 – So far more than one million Europeans have signed the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to…

Serbian Ministry of Health supports HEAL’s Unmask My City campaign

1st June 2017

Chemical regulation is “best buy” in cancer prevention

25th May 2017

Brussels, 25 May 2017 – The 2017 edition of the European Week Against Cancer(1) opens in a context where the European Commission just announced its intention to resume the discussion…

Havamizi Bozmayin. Çanakkale’deki Kömür Santrali Projelerinden Vazgeçin!

24th May 2017

Further delay on flawed EDC criteria maintains unnecessary risks on human health and the environment

18th May 2017

Brussels, 18 May 2017 – The criteria to identify hormone disrupting chemicals (or EDCs), for which a decision was expected today, continue to cause disagreements among EU member states. The…

Medical groups call for climate to be in G20 Health Ministers’ declaration

16th May 2017

European medical and public health community welcome the first G20 Health Ministers’ meeting but urge ministers to recognise the threat to health from climate change. On May 19-20 under the…

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