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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...

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...

EPHA joins calls for decision-makers to put vans on a zero-emission path

by Matteo Barisione | Mar 10, 2022 | #CleanAirHealthyCities, Clean Air | Latest Developments

Air quality in Europe is still a health and environmental issue, as the recent report from Clean Cities Campaign has shown. No major European city is developing enough non-polluting forms of transport by 2030, threatening to undermine the health of its citizens. One...

“Not even close”: healthy transport in European cities is still a dream, not reality

by Matteo Barisione | Feb 24, 2022 | #CleanAirHealthyCities, Clean Air | Latest Developments

According to a new study published today, no major European city is developing enough non-polluting forms of transport by 2030, threatening to undermine the health of its citizens. This disappointing situation in 36 major cities was revealed in a report released by...

Improving air quality can decrease the health costs of epidemics, say researchers

by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 11, 2022 | Clean Air | Latest Developments

Air pollution remains the biggest environmental health risk in Europe and continues to be a major cause of premature death and disease. Yet, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw a temporary increase in air quality as a result of lockdowns enforced to...