The EU Healthy Air Coalition, of which the Association of European Cancer Leagues is a member, calls on the European Commission to make the Clean Industrial Deal a deal to tackle air pollution, the top environmental risk to health in Europe.
19 February 2025
Members of the European Commission’s Project Group on the Clean Industrial Deal are currently preparing the Clean Industrial Deal, expected to be launched at the end of this month.
The EU Healthy Air Coalition have expressed great concern that from media reports and statements on the Clean Industrial Deal, we see no evidence that reducing air pollution is included in considerations on this ‘clean’ deal.
The science is crystal clear: air pollution remains the top environmental risk to health in Europe, resulting in hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and hundreds of billions of euros of costs annually. There is a large body of evidence showing that air pollution is a cause for all major non-communicable diseases, including lung cancer.
The EU Healthy Air Coalition (EUHAC) brings together non-profit health expert voices in the EU representing diverse constituencies of the health sector, including doctors and other health care professionals, scientists, public health experts and groups, respiratory or cancer patients and health insurance funds.
