EFA had the chance to touch base with the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) membership who gathered in October 20-21 for HEAL’s Annual General Assembly.
EFA Isabel Proaño and Roberta Savli represented EFA in meeting and shared our work to include the health dimension and indoor air quality concerns in the European Parliament revision of the European Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), that will guide stock building renovation in Europe for the next decades. Although the EPBD text that will be sent to the Council for Member States to discuss energy performance does not include the certification of indoor air quality levels in buildings, as EFA has been advocating for, we have gathered support from Members of the European Parliament to also think about indoor air pollution, its impacts on health and how to reduce it.
During HEAL AGA, European umbrella associations and national HEAL members shared also their perspective and ideas to impulse supportive EU decision-makers to move towards healthier urban indoor environments, beyond the concepts of efficiency and sustainability, that fail nowadays to be people-centric and therefore lack of instruments and power to assess and tackle health impacts.
See more about our work on Indoor Air Quality here