The Green 10 coalition, which HEAL is a part of, encourages the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola upon her re-election to put the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergency at the forefront of her tenure.
Mere weeks before a high-level conference on the future of the European Union’s chemicals policy, the European Commission has not yet published the ‘raison-d’être’ for the event: the outcome of an evaluation of all chemicals policies except REACH.
A cross-country group of twenty-seven civil society organisations have expressed their concerns about this delay. In a letter to the European Commission, they highlight that this failure adds to another missed deadline: the delivery of a European non-toxic environment strategy, which the Commission committed to through the seventh Environmental Action Programme.