by Cristina Pricop | Nov 22, 2022 | Clean Air | Latest Developments
In a joint letter sent today, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) and 14 other signatories call upon European Commission executive vice-president Frans Timmermans and EU Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson to phase out domestic gas cooking appliances, as they...
by Cristina Pricop | Oct 26, 2022 | Clean Air | Analysis & Opinion, The View from EPHA
© Image by European Health Forum Gastein via Flickr. Estimates say we spend about 90% of our time indoors. In doing so, we are faced with an invisible yet pervasive threat: indoor air pollution. On Thursday 29 September, EPHA organised a session at the European Health...
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...
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...
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...
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...
