The newly released European State of the Climate 2024 annual report (ESOTC), co-published by the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation program and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), confirms what public health experts have long warned about: the health costs of climate change in Europe are rising fast, and so is the human toll.
The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) underlines the current unpreparedness of coal power plants in the Western Balkans to meet emission standards ahead of a European Parliament Industry, Research and Energy Committee meeting with the Energy Community.
HEAL’s briefing on the implementation of Large Combustion Plants Directive: ’Boosting Health By Improving Air Quality in the Balkans’ shows that cutting down air pollution from Western Balkan coal power plants as of 2018 could result in 6,460 lives saved each year, if emission limits that need to be achieved by 2028 would be applied.
