The EU’s proposed 2040 climate target to reduce domestic emissions by 90% - while allowing up to 3% to be met through international carbon credits – risks undermining health protections. The Health and Environment Alliance calls on member states to strengthen their climate commitments in order to protect health, rather than delay and weaken overdue action.
HEAL has sent a joint letter together with CEE Bankwatch and Re:Common to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) calling on it to abandon its support for thermal and coking coal in its mining policy revision.
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