Zero pollution: Beat pollution – prevent disease
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…
Proposal for 55% GHG reduction target for 2030: near miss is still a miss
In her first State of the Union speech, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen today proposed upping the EU’s 2030 target for GHG emission reductions from the current -40%…
European Parliament’s vote on Just Transition fund is a disappointment
Today, the European Parliament has adopted its position on the 17.5 billion EUR Just Transition Fund. HEAL, together with 64 other organisations, has been advocating to exclude fossil gas from…
64 organisations write to European Parliament: The Just Transition has to be fossil fuel-free
Chronic Coal Pollution Serbia – Making the case for health promoting investments for zero pollution in Serbia
Coal combustion is the dominant form of energy generation in Serbia and the Western Balkans, with severe health consequences - the 16 outdated coal power plants in the region produce…
Letter to Chinese Banks by More than 20 Turkish NGOs
Adana – More than 20 civil society organisations have sent a letter to Chinese banks, China Development Bank, ICBC and Bank of China, calling on them to withdraw their financial…
Strengthening Turkish health sector engagement on climate and environmental policies
New EU-financed project aims to build the capacity of the Turkish health sector on communications and advocacy for better health protection Studies regarding the impact of climate change and the…
New science commentary: How fossil fuel-derived pesticides and plastics harm health, biodiversity, and the climate
A healthy, green and just response to the COVID-19 crisis in the Western Balkans
The Western Balkan countries are faced with an unprecedented crisis, and the magnitude of public health consequences of COVID-19 are and will be costing the Balkan region dearly. The World…
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
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…