Clean air in Europe for all! Taking stock of the proposed revision to the ambient air quality directives: a joint ERS, HEI and ISEE workshop report

Michelle C Turner; Zorana Jovanovic Andersen; Maria Neira; Michal Krzyzanowski; Ebba Malmqvist; Alberto González Ortiz; Gregor Kiesewetter; Klea Katsouyanni; Bert Brunekreef; Erik Melén; Petter Ljungman; Margherita Tolotto; Francesco Forastiere; Paul Dendale; Richard Price; Ole Bakke; Sibylle Reichert; Gerard Hoek; Göran Pershagen; Annette Peters; Xavier Querol; Anna Gerometta; Evangelia Samoli; Iana Markevych; Romain Basthiste; Haneen Khreis; Pallavi Pant; Mark Nieuwenhuijsen; Jason D Sacks; Kjeld Hansen; Thomas Lymes; Anne Stauffer; Gary W Fuller; Hanna Boogaard; Barbara Hoffmann

doi:10.1183/13993003.01380-2023

Clean air in Europe for all! Taking stock of the proposed revision to the ambient air quality directives: a joint ERS, HEI and ISEE workshop report

Eur Respir J. 2023 Oct 26;62(4):2301380. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01380-2023. Print 2023 Oct.

Authors

Michelle C Turner^{1

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3}, Zorana Jovanovic Andersen⁴, Maria Neira⁵, Michal Krzyzanowski⁶, Ebba Malmqvist⁷, Alberto González Ortiz⁸, Gregor Kiesewetter⁹, Klea Katsouyanni⁶, Bert Brunekreef¹⁰, Erik Melén¹¹, Petter Ljungman¹¹, Margherita Tolotto¹², Francesco Forastiere⁶, Paul Dendale¹³, Richard Price¹⁴, Ole Bakke¹⁵, Sibylle Reichert¹⁶, Gerard Hoek¹⁰, Göran Pershagen¹¹, Annette Peters^{17

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19}, Xavier Querol²⁰, Anna Gerometta²¹, Evangelia Samoli²², Iana Markevych^{23

24}, Romain Basthiste²⁵, Haneen Khreis²⁶, Pallavi Pant²⁷, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen^{28

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3}, Jason D Sacks²⁹, Kjeld Hansen^{30

31}, Thomas Lymes³², Anne Stauffer³³, Gary W Fuller³⁴, Hanna Boogaard²⁷, Barbara Hoffmann³⁵

Affiliations

¹ Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain michelle.turner@isglobal.org.
² Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
³ CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.
⁴ University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁷ Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
⁸ European Environment Agency (EEA), Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁹ International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
¹⁰ Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹¹ Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹² European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Brussels, Belgium.
¹³ European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Sophia Antipolis, France.
¹⁴ European Cancer Organisation (ECO), Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁵ Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁶ International Association of Mutual Benefit Societies (AIM), Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁷ Helmholtz München - German Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
¹⁸ IBE, Medical Faculty, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany.
¹⁹ Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
²⁰ Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain.
²¹ Cittadini per l'aria onlus, Milan, Italy.
²² Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
²³ Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
²⁴ Health and Quality of Life in a Green and Sustainable Environment, SRIPD, Medical University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
²⁵ City of Paris, Paris, France.
²⁶ MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
²⁷ Health Effects Institute (HEI), Boston, MA, USA.
²⁸ Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain.
²⁹ Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
³⁰ European Lung Foundation, Sheffield, UK.
³¹ Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway.
³² Eurocities, Brussels, Belgium.
³³ Health and Environment Alliance, Brussels, Belgium.
³⁴ MRC Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
³⁵ University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.

PMID: 37827574
PMCID: PMC10894647 (available on 2024-10-26)
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01380-2023

Abstract

Ambient air pollution is a major public health concern and comprehensive new legislation is currently being considered to improve air quality in Europe. The European Respiratory Society (ERS), Health Effects Institute (HEI), and International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) organised a joint meeting on May 24, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium, to review and critically evaluate the latest evidence on the health effects of air pollution and discuss ongoing revisions of the European Ambient Air Quality Directives (AAQDs). A multi-disciplinary expert group of air pollution and health researchers, patient and medical societies, and policy representatives participated. This report summarises key discussions at the meeting.

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Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Air Pollutants* / analysis
Air Pollution* / analysis
Europe
Humans
Particulate Matter / analysis

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Air Pollutants
Particulate Matter

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