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Prioritising Health in Europe’s Mobility Planning: Transformative Pathways Beyond 2024
EPHA is pleased to invite you to an informative event to explore the critical links between clean mobility policies and health outcomes, as crucial for transformative change from city to European level.
The new WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines: a game changer for clean air in Europe!
On September 22, The World Health Organization (WHO) updated its global air quality guidelines. This important document recommends air quality limits as well as interim targets for key pollutants. It also provides clear evidence of the...
Healthy Air, Healthy Planet: #WorldCleanAirDay, an opportunity to highlight the climate crisis
On 7 September, we celebrate the 2nd International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies. This day, initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is an opportunity to further raise awareness of the health benefits of cleaner air as well as to call...
The Euro 7 standard: why it matters for cities
There are no safe levels of air pollution, and cities, with their high population density and intense mobility patterns, are facing particular challenges in reducing the levels of harmful emissions. European emission standards are one...
“Recovery plans should not ignore public health risks”
Italian doctor Agostino Di Ciaula on why he signed the Medics4CleanAir manifesto
“Having cleaner air is in our hands”
Dr. Olaia Bronte Moreno, Pulmonology specialist from Spain, on why she has signed the Medics4CleanAir manifesto
National Governments ask for a phase-out date for the sale of petrol and diesel cars
New calls from nine national governments for a EU ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2028
Why I believe clean air is important for our health
Dr Andrej Martin Vujkovac, MD from Slovenia on why he has signed the Medics4CleanAir manifesto
New EU air quality rules can protect public health says the European Public Health Alliance
The European Public Health Alliance calls on the European Commission to use proposals for new air quality standards in Europe to improve the air we breathe
All I want for Christmas is Clean Air
Maria Viegas, Public Health Director European Medical Students’ Association (EMSA), Medical student and healthcare helper in a Portuguese hospital during the COVID-19 crisis writes why she has joined #medics4cleanair
New poll finds Europeans do not want to go back to pre-Covid air pollution levels
11 June 2020, Brussels A new opinion poll from YouGov in 21 European cities finds a majority of urban residents across Europe do not want to see air pollution return to pre-Covid-19 levels and support...
Over 40 million health professionals call on the G20 to prescribe a healthy recovery from COVID19
350 organisations representing over 40 million health professionals as well as over 4,500 individual health professionals from 90 different countries have written to the G20 leaders calling for a #HealthyRecovery, as they begin to plan...
Support public transport, cycling and walking, city mayors, public health and transport NGOs ask the EU
City mayors, together with public health and transport NGOs have today written to European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans calling for the EU COVID19 Recovery Package to mitigate the impact of greenhouse gas emissions and ensure...
Conditions caused by dirty air likely to cut COVID19 survival chances
The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) has warned today that those living in polluted cities are more at risk from Covid-19 Doctors are starting to link hypertension, diabetes and respiratory diseases, often caused or exacerbated by...
Time to translate EU ambition on clean air into action, health and environmental groups say
Eight health and environmental civil society organisations have come together to voice European citizens’ concerns and have co-signed a letter to Executive Vice-Presidents Timmermans and Dombrovskis and Commissioner Sinkevičius calling on them to translate the ambition stated...