Met dank overgenomen van Europese Commissie (EC), gepubliceerd op woensdag 12 mei 2021.
Why do we need to act more on pollution?
Despite significant progress in the EU over the last decades, pollution still heavily impacts our health and the environment. In the EU, one in eight deaths is linked to environmental pollution, with 90% of these deaths due to chronic diseases, out of which cancers score as the most frequent ones. It is estimated that air pollution alone causes up to 400.000 premature deaths each year. Pollution s most harmful impacts on human health are typically borne by the most vulnerable groups, notably children, people with medical conditions, older persons, persons with disabilities and those living in poorer socio-economic conditions, creating thus further inequalities.
Met dank overgenomen van Europese Commissie (EC), gepubliceerd op woensdag 12 mei 2021.
ood afternoon everyone,
And thank you Executive Vice-President for showing importance of this initiative in a bigger picture of the European Green Deal.
Last year the Commission adopted the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. It was an early bird of our wider approach towards pollution issues.
Together with that strategy, today s plan translates our zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment into a tangible set of actions for air, water and soil.
It is needed because the EU and its Member States must ensure certain level of life quality for citizens who are now suffering from air and noise pollution.
EEB report finds only Belgium and Slovakia on track to meet EU air pollution targets
All of the EU’s member states but two have failed to show how they will slash air pollution to comply with the emissions limits set out in the EU’s National Emission Ceilings Directive, according to a new report from the European Environmental Bureau (EEB).
The EEB report National Air Pollution Control Programmes: analysis and suggestions for the way forward sheds light on progress by member states towards compliance with the National Emission Ceilings (NEC) Directive, which aims to halve the impact of air pollution on people health by 2030.