by European Public Health Alliance | Nov 24, 2022 | Position & Policy Papers
While climate change is established as a growing global crisis, the impact on human health and well-being are only more recently being explored. The World Health Organization is creating momentum in this regard, with a recently issued health-driven call for climate...
by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 7, 2022 | Statements
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 | 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 | Dec 16, 2021 | Position & Policy Papers
Climate change poses the biggest global health threat of this century, yet this issue remains under-recognized. The many ways global warming will affect our health are not yet fully understood, but the changes to our environment become more dramatic and...
by European Public Health Alliance | Oct 26, 2021 | Statements
The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change highlights the increase of impacts of climate change on human health. Including 44 indicators and representing the consensus among leading researchers from 43 academic institutions and UN agencies,...