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HEAL and Mutualités Libres’ conference: Healthy cities, healthy people – Pathways for clean air in the EU’s urban environments
HEAL response to call for evidence on National Emission Reduction Commitments Directive (NEC)
First ever climate risk assessment highlights the EU’s health emergency
The European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA) carried out by the European Environment Agency (EEA) identified 36 climate…
Press Note: Health groups call on the European Parliament to protect children’s health from harmful chemicals in toys
New infographic on the health and climate threat from wood burning
A new infographic entitled “Wood burning: a false solution fuelling the climate crisis and harming…
HEAL’s response to the EU Commission’s proposal to prohibit BPA and other bisphenols in food contact materials
Health organisations call on MEPs to support the trilogue deal for cleaner air and better health
Next Monday 11 March, the ENVI committee will be voting on “Ambient air quality and…
Press Note: Health groups call on the European Parliament to protect children’s health from harmful chemicals in toys
Press Note: Health groups welcome restriction on widely used sub-family of PFAS
EU geht wichtigen Schritt, um Menschen europaweit vor Luftverschmutzung zu schützen
Berlin / Brüssel, 21. Februar 2024 Gesundheitsexpert:innen begrüßen die gestern im Trilog erzielte Einigung zur Aktualisierung der…
Press release: Faced with a public health emergency from air pollution, the EU is one step closer to finally tackling it
Press note: Health groups from across the EU call for ambitious air quality law
Press note: Health groups warn of delays and inequalities in updating EU clean air standards
Scientists show delay to air quality rules could cost an extra 327,600 lives
Health organisations call on MEPs to support the trilogue deal for cleaner air and better health
Next Monday 11 March, the ENVI committee will be voting on “Ambient air quality and…
European health sector letter to EU environment ministers: swiftly adopt AAQD deal
HEAL and six more organisations representing the European health sector have sent a letter to…
Joint letter to the REACH Committee on the restriction of PFHxA
70+ Civil society groups send letter to Belgian Prime Minister ahead of high-level, closed event with the chemical industry
Gemeinsamer Brief an Ministerin Lemke: Unterstützung der Bundesregierung für Gesundheitsschutz in der Novellierung der EULuftqualitätsrichtlinie
Die Deutsche Allianz Klimawandel und Gesundheit e.V. (KLUG) und die Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)…
National health groups’ letters to ministers for an ambitious Ambient Air Quality Directive
Opinion: The latest update of EU clean air standards could benefit Poland greatly
The Polish government is in a key position to ensure an ambitious EU Air Quality Directive
Opinion: How industry can launder a health-risking substance: Titanium dioxide should remain classified as carcinogenic within the EU
Tribune collectif: La réglementation européenne sur les substances chimiques doit être révisée d’urgence
Europe’s raw materials rush does not justify keeping workers in the dark about lithium’s dangers
There is no “safe level” of air pollution
A tale of disruption: looking back at one decade of Europe’s (unkept) promises to address endocrine disrupting pesticides
Webinar – Ambient Air Quality EU Directive: A public health need
Webinar (recordings): Reducing the urban burden of disease: from science to policy action
Webinar: Reducing the urban burden of disease: from science to policy action
Webinar recording: Building Health Bridges for Clean Air
Webinar series recordings: The healthy and clean city of tomorrow
In June 2023, HEAL organised a series of three webinars to put a spotlight on…
Webinar: Building Health Bridges for Clean Air
Closing event of the ÇİSİP project this Friday 2 June
This Friday 2 June, the three-year EU-funded project ÇİSİP, which is implemented by HEAL, HASUDER…