by European Public Health Alliance | Jan 28, 2026 | News Release
Each year, pollution claims and affects hundreds of thousands of lives across Europe. Even as air pollution levels continue to decline, it is still expected to cause around 200,000 premature deaths every year across the EU in the coming decade. Europe’s freshwater...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 11, 2025 | Opinion
By Faustine Bas-Defossez, Policy Director, European Environmental Bureau Not only because of polluted air, toxic chemicals, rising temperatures or collapsing ecosystems – but because the very antibodies that protect our democracies are being weakened. Across the...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 10, 2025 | Statements
The interinstitutional negotiations on the EU’s climate ambition beyond 2030 took place on 09 December 2025. EPHA joined 19 health sector organisations, representing healthcare and medical professionals, patients and public health experts from across the EU, in urging...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 8, 2025 | Statements
Air pollution from petrol and diesel vehicles remains one of Europe’s most harmful public-health threats. Emissions from internal combustion engines are major sources of nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5). These are pollutants with no safe...
by European Public Health Alliance | Nov 4, 2025 | Statements
EPHA has joined more than 150 organisations, experts, and activists worldwide in signing the Healthy Planet Now Open Letter, calling for health to be placed at the centre of climate action ahead of COP30. The initiative emphasises that the climate crisis is a health...
