Clean air is essential for a healthy life. More than 400,000 early deaths are caused each year by air pollution in Europe. We are all affected but some, especially children and older people, are more vulnerable than others. We are fighting for everybody’s right to breathe clean air.
We’re tackling unseen air pollution in Germany
For 10 years, emissions of ammonia in Germany have soared far above legal limits. The German Federal government has a legal obligation to protect people in Germany and across the EU from dangerous air pollution but it’s not doing enough. We’ve launched a legal challenge over its continued failures.
Air pollution and Covid-19: clean air zones postponed across the UK
The implementation of Clean Air Zones across the country will be delayed until “after the Covid-19 outbreak response”. Given the harm to people’s health caused by air pollution, particularly to those most vulnerable, we think the delay should be kept as short as possible.
Of Munich’s Air and Prisons: New Court of Justice Ruling on Effective Remedies
Shortly before Christmas, the Court of Justice (CJEU) rendered judgement on a preliminary reference from the Higher Administrative Court of Bavaria.
The Environment Bill: another missed opportunity for clean air
Today, the Government released its long-awaited Environment Bill to tackle the UK’s biggest environmental challenges but it was another missed opportunity for people’s right to breathe clean air.
Series of webinars “Right to clean air and access to justice” January – February 2020
We are launching a series of three webinars on the right to clean air and access to justice.
Air pollution resources
Over several years of legal action to improve European air quality, ClientEarth has built a body of leading clean air resources. This section, updated regularly, features links to court rulings, policy developments, and ClientEarth’s Clean Air Handbook, among other useful documents.
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Latest documents
- Clean Air Parents’ Network: General Election 2019 Toolkit
- Healthy Air Campaign The Environment Bill and clean air Second Reading briefing
- Healthy Air Campaign – Clean Air and the Environment Bill briefing
- Healthy Air Campaign – Clean Air and the Environment Bill position paper
- ClientEarth amicus curiae dans l’affaire Di Caprio et autres contre l’Italie, septembre 2019
- Heathrow Airport Expansion Consultation – ClientEarth written response September 2019
- ClientEarth amicus curiae in case Di Caprio and others v. Italy, September 2019
- Hearing on air pollution health risks puts Germany’s diesel debate in spotlight
- What do ClientEarth’s legal cases mean for local authority plans to deliver nitrogen dioxide compliance in England and Wales?
- Judgment of the German Federal Administrative Court – Stuttgart – Case BVerwG 7 C 30.17 – February 2018
- Judgment of the German Federal Administrative Court – Dusseldorf – Case BVerwG 7 CX 26.16 27 – February 2018
- Judgment of the Bratislava court on 13 November 2018 – Case 5S/31/2017-141