The Heavy Duty Vehicles CO2 Emission Standard is an EU initiative under the EU Green Deal to clean the heavy transport sector; a sector comprising only 2% of Europe’s transport, but responsible for 28% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from transport. The...
The “Exposing the Hidden Health Impacts of Cooking with Gas” report by the non-profit energy efficiency group CLASP and the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), with technical input by the Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), reveals that yearly over...
The European Union’s revision of the Ambient Air Quality Directives (AAQDs) presents an opportunity to drastically reduce the health, wellbeing and social effects of air pollution in Europe through greater ambition, more consideration of marginalised populations, and...
Three years into the EU Roma Strategic Framework for Equality, Inclusion and Participation for 2020-2030, the Commission has provided Member States and accession countries with an assessment of their National Roma Strategic Frameworks (NRSF). These NRSFs are the...
The transferable exclusivity voucher is a costly, complex and untested incentive for new antibiotics. It does not address access to new and old antibiotics, and it does not help with stewardship. We are worried that the European Commission plans to include the voucher...
EPHA was invited to participate in the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Consultation Forum meeting on Cooking appliances on 29 November 2022. This meeting brought together representatives from the Commission, the Joint Research Centre, member states, industry and civil...
