HEAL asking for environmental health protection and evidence-based disease prevention at the heart of EU’s COVID-19 recovery
Today the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) wrote to Presidents Michel and Von der Leyen to ask that environmental health protection and evidence based disease prevention are put at the…
Executive Vice-President Timmermans’ reply to HEAL’s letter on zero pollution and health protection
Executive Vice-President Timmermans' reply to HEAL's letter on zero pollution and health protection
Joint public appeal for investment in a healthy future, a green and just recovery
Time to invest in a healthy future - Time for a green recovery We call upon EU and national leaders to tackle the unprecedented crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic…
Joint letter: Greening state aid as part of the Commission’s Green Recovery Strategy
HEAL together with the other Green 10 organisations has sent a letter to Commission President Von der Leyen as well as on greening state aid as part of the European…
For a Europe that cares for all – during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Solidarity must be the bedrock of Europe’s response to this crisis: to fighting the pandemic and protecting all people, to managing the social and economic consequences, and to defending democracy. Solidarity goes beyond borders and should not be limited to European Union countries.
CSOs open letter on the importance and urgency of publishing the Farm to Fork strategy by end April 2020
On 14 April, 39 civil society organisations have sent a joint letter to Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Commissioner Kyriakides, Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski and Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, highlighting the importance and urgency of publishing the Farm to Fork strategy without delaying further by end April 2020.
Joint letter to EU institutions on COVID-19 response
HEAL is one of the signatories (together with WWF, BirdLife Europe, EEB, CEE Bankwatch, CAN Europe, Transport & Environment and NatureFriends International) of a joint letter to Commission President von…
Joint open letter: Principles for a #JustRecovery from COVID-19
HEAL is a signatory of a letter coordinated by 350, calling for a global and financial response to COVID-19 that ensures a just recovery, putting health, fairness, people and solidarity…
HEAL response to the Beating Cancer Plan roadmap
On 4 February 2020, the European Commission launched an EU-wide public consultation on Europe's Beating Cancer Plan running for 12 weeks as well as a consultation on the roadmap for…
Joint letter to members of the Environment Council of the European Union on air quality action in 2020
The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), together with the European Federation of Allergy & Airways Diseases Patients´ Association (EFA), the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), the European Respiratory Society (ERS)…
Environment Ministers have to show commitment to EU action on air quality in 2020
In the upcoming Council Conclusions on Air Quality, we call on Environment Ministers to: Reflect the urgency to act on air pollution for health protection: the positive effects of this Green Deal need to be breathable by the end of the current EU Commission’ mandate. Translate the urgency into action by paving the way forward: the EU Green Deal ambition needs to take the shape of clear steps for clean air in 2020, with a view to aligning the EU air standards with the WHO guidelines.
Environmental health priorities for Croatia’s presidency of the Council of the European Union
Croatia holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the first half of 2020. In a letter to Croatia's prime minister Andrej Plenkovic, HEAL shared its priorities on how we consider the Presidency can help advance the protection of health from environment and climate threats in the next months, particularly regarding the EU Green Deal proposal.
