{"id":114140,"date":"2024-02-20T21:31:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T20:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/?p=114140"},"modified":"2024-02-20T22:15:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T21:15:03","slug":"high-level-european-politicians-polluted-by-pfas-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/european-institutions-reach-agreement-on-future-air-quality-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"European institutions reach agreement on future of air quality laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BRUSSELS, 20 February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today, the last political trilogue concluded in an agreement for a new Ambient Air Quality Directive (AAQD).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new law aims to reduce air pollution in the EU to achieve a clean and healthy environment for citizens as well as zero air pollution by 2050.<\/p>\n<p><b>Margherita Tolotto, Policy Manager Air and Noise, European Environmental Bureau:<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cAfter 16 months, a deal was reached. Europeans will be able to count on a new AAQD which will help to secure better air quality for all. What comes next is a swift process for adopting the text, so it can become EU law and finally start driving the needed change. We thank the co-legislators for their effort in securing an agreement.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Action to reduce air pollution is as important as ever. Poor air quality is still responsible for over 250,000 premature deaths every year.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2022, the Commission proposed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_22_6278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revision of the EU air quality rules<\/a>\u00a0with more ambitious targets for 2030 to achieve the zero pollution objective by 2050 in line with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/ALL\/?uri=COM%3A2021%3A400%3AFIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Zero Pollution Action Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>ENDS<\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS, 20 February. Today, the last political trilogue concluded in an agreement for a new Ambient Air Quality Directive (AAQD). The new law aims to reduce<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":114143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,4,144],"tags":[191,93,923],"class_list":["post-114140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-press-release","category-homepage","tag-air-pollution","tag-air-quality","tag-who"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/guillaume-perigois-0NRkVddA2fw-unsplash-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}