Clean Air - EPHA

Joint letter | Wood burning harms our health and fuels climate change

by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 7, 2022 | Clean Air, Clean Air | Latest Developments

Ahead of the vote on 13 September on the proposal to revise the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), EPHA, together with Klimawandel Gesundheit (KLUG), Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), and Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Public Health (DGPH), has signed a letter...

Health costs from air pollution: Bulgarian civil society to close a polluting thermal power plant

by European Public Health Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | Clean Air | Latest Developments

Guest article by Reneta Ilieva, International Projects Coordinator, BAPD Air pollution continues to have significant impacts on the health of Europeans, particularly in Bulgaria. We see a severe lag compared to other countries in the European Union in terms of air...

Fluorinated gases regulation and climate warming

by European Public Health Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | Clean Air | Analysis & Opinion

Guest article by Marta Montanari, Policy and Events Officer at the European Respiratory Society In 2020, the European Commission started to work on a new initiative to update the current set of rules to reduce Fluorinated gases (F-gases) emissions. There are four...

The WHO Air Quality Guidelines should be used to set air pollution reduction targets in our cities

by European Public Health Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | Clean Air

Guest article by Dr Alessandro Borgini, ISDE – Italy Decades of important scientific studies have revealed the strong connection between exposure to air pollution and adverse health outcomes like respiratory infections, heart disease and lung cancer. Both...

When open letters work: publication of the EU proposal on pollution emission standards for vehicles

by Matteo Barisione | Aug 31, 2022 | Clean Air, Clean Air | Analysis & Opinion

The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), the European Respiratory Society (ERS), the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Transport & Environment, and POLIS Network, co-signed a letter on 30 June asking the European Commission to not postpone the release of its...

Joint letter I MEPs crucial vote on the revision of car CO2 reduction targets

by European Public Health Alliance | May 5, 2022 | #CleanAirHealthyCities, #EU4Health, Clean Air | Latest Developments, Climate Emergency & EU Green Deal

This article has been updated on 21 June 2022. On 30 May, a group of over 50 NGOs from across Europe have co-signed a letter addressed to MEPs ahead of their vote on car and van CO2 laws on June 7. They appeal for higher CO2 targets for carmakers as a mean to speed up...