Making the health arguments heard in climate negotiations – HEAL at COP23
By Genon K. Jensen, HEAL's Executive Director Yesterday, a sixteen head strong high-level HEAL delegation traveled to COP23, the UN Climate Change Conference 2017, taking place from 6-17 November in…
Member states fail to agree on glyphosate: Phase out is the only option to protect health
Pollution causes nine million deaths per year worldwide reveals new and first of its kind Lancet report
HEAL joins German NGOs to call for swift implementation of pollution control regulation
In an open letter to the German ministry of economy as well as the ministry of environment, the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) joined six large German NGOs as well…
New rules hasten end for Europe’s dirtiest power plants
National governments must not use legal loopholes to hide failure on air quality
Open letter to Nicolas Hulot, French Minister responsible for the environment
Dear Minister, We are writing to you on behalf of the EDC Free Europe coalition [1], which represents 70 civil society groups – trade unions, consumers, health professionals, cancer organisations, environmental…
HEAL Healthy Energy Paper
Further delay on flawed EDC criteria maintains unnecessary risks on human health and the environment
Brussels, 18 May 2017 – The criteria to identify hormone disrupting chemicals (or EDCs), for which a decision was expected today, continue to cause disagreements among EU member states. The…