Clean air for health
Breathing is the most basic human function to sustain life. And yet, air pollution remains the largest environmental health risk in Europe, despite increasing awareness of the health impacts of air pollution over decades and various policy initiatives at international, European, national, regional and city levels.
Do you live in a city? This is what air pollution is doing to us.
Publications
Health impacts and health costs of diesel emissions in the EU
The Invisible Killer: the health burden from air pollution in Europe
Lancet Countdown & EPHA Policy Briefing I Tackling Climate Change and Air Pollution
#cleanair4health
Latest Developments
Clean Air Actions under the 2020 Work Programme of the European Commission
8 health and environmental civil society organisations call for concrete clean air steps in the 2020 Work Programme of the European Commission in a co-signed a letter to Executive Vice-Presidents Timmermans and Dombrovskis and Commissioner Sinkevičius.
read moreWhy “clean” diesel cars still emit health-harmful particle pollution
A new report reveals that the strictest EU diesel car pollution controls are still failing to stop large amounts of health harmful particle pollution.
read moreZero pollution and health protection at the core of the European Green Deal
EPHA joins calls for zero pollution and health protection to be put at the heart of the European Green Deal
read moreAnalysis & Opinion
How can we improve the air we breathe in 2020?
The EU Green Deal; a new strategy for sustainable mobility; the power of cities in fighting air pollution – will we see a breakthrough in efforts to improve the air we breathe in 2020?
read moreRecipe for a healthy EU Green Deal
The EU Green Deal is a public health strategy to its core and people’s health will benefit tremendously if its actions are properly designed and implemented
read moreLooking forward to EU ambition on zero air pollution
What actions can we expect from the EU to tackle air pollution in the next five years?
read morePast Events
A matter of life or death
25 April 2019
Ella was only 9 years old when she succumbed to an asthma attack linked to the illegal levels of air pollution in the United Kingdom.
Paying to breathe
27 November 2018
The European Diesel Summit
6 November 2018
Do you have a question?
Meet our Clean Air for Health Policy Lead.
Zoltán Massay-Kosubek
Policy Manager for Health Policy Coherence
zoltan@epha.org
+32 2 233 3872