Health and Environment Alliance

Lettre : Avancement de l’application de plusieurs actions phares prévues dans la seconde Stratégie nationale sur les Perturbateurs endocriniens (SNPE 2)

29th January 2021

Il y a plus d’un an, les autorités françaises lançaient la seconde Stratégie nationale sur les Perturbateurs endocriniens (SNPE 2). Nos organisations sont convaincues que les engagements pris dans la SNPE 2 ont le potentiel de contribuer à la prévention d’un certain nombre de pathologies, dont l’occurrence est de plus en plus liée à l’exposition aux perturbateurs endocriniens, et de préserver l’environnement des effets de ces substances.

Letter – Advancing on the zero pollution ambition, especially in recovery financing and investments, under the Portuguese Presidency

29th January 2021

HEAL has sent a letter to the Portuguese presidency of the European Union, calling for putting the zero pollution ambition at the center of a healthy, just and green recovery…

Letter: 13 NGOs write to EU Chemicals Agency with important questions on nano and biocidal-treated products

21st January 2021

HEAL feedback on Air quality – revision of EU rules

13th January 2021

Air pollution is the number one environmental threat to health in the European region and globally, leading to 400,000 premature deaths and hundreds of billions of euros in health costs…

Letter: Strengere Schadstoffgrenzwerte für Kohlekraftwerke, für besseren Gesundheits- und Umweltschutz

13th January 2021

Green 10 open letter to the EU Commission: Support the biodiversity ambition under the Recovery and Resilience Facility

15th December 2020

Letter to EU heads of state: Upping EU’s 2030 GHG emissions reduction target to – 65% to respond to the twin COVID-19 pandemic and climate crises

8th December 2020

HEAL has sent a letter to EU heads of state calling for raising the EU’s 2030 GHG emissions reduction target to - 65% to respond to the twin COVID-19 pandemic…

HEAL joins international call for UN Food and Agriculture Organization to abandon partnership with trade industry

23rd November 2020

In response to stated plans by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to strengthen ties with a trade association whose members continue to produce highly hazardous pesticides harmful to human health and the environment, HEAL and over three hundred other organizations in over 60 countries have sent a letter to Director-General Qu Dongyu opposing the alliance.

An ambitious implementation of the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans to prevent ill-health and move towards zero pollution

9th November 2020

As leaders are gathering in Sofia this week for the next meeting in the Berlin process, HEAL urges them ambitiously implement the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans to prevent ill-health and move towards zero pollution.

Letter: Prohibiting the export of banned pesticides and the import of food produced with these chemicals

5th November 2020

Green 10 letter on guaranteeing a Green Recovery across Europe in Next Generation EU by excluding fossil fuels from the RRF

28th October 2020

The 10 largest environmental NGOs have written a letter on the need to exclude fossil fuels from the scope of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the largest envelope in Next…

Zero pollution: Beat pollution – prevent disease

27th October 2020

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is the leading European not-for-profit organisation addressing how the natural and built environment affects health in the European Union. HEAL welcomes the priority that…

Letter: Time to ensure the EU is on the path to a toxic-free environment

12th October 2020

Letter to Deputy Mayor of Sofia on healthier air for a healthier environment

12th October 2020

Letter: Millions of citizens in the EU call for full alignment of the reformed Common Agricultural Policy with the European Green Deal

30th September 2020

Over 250 organisations and coalitions representing millions of citizens have urged EU leaders to make sure the CAP negotiations shape a policy that reflects the EU Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy.

Letter: Call to continue progress on the SCIP database, for consumers and the planet

29th September 2020

Joint letter to Vice-President Šefčovič on reform of better regulation rules

22nd September 2020

Green 10, together with the European Trade Union Confederation, sent a letter to Vice-President Šefčovič ahead of the publication of the Communication reforming the European Commission's better regulation rules. Full…

64 organisations write to European Parliament: The Just Transition has to be fossil fuel-free

14th September 2020

HEAL is among the 64 signatories of an open letter to members of the European Parliament, ahead of it voting on its position on the Just Transition Fund on 15 September 2020.

Dear EU Commission Vice-President Timmermans: Time to ensure that the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability delivers a toxic free environment

24th July 2020

Joint Green 10 letter: Guaranteeing a Green Recovery across Europe in Next Generation EU

16th July 2020

Letters