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HEAL’s campaign on coal and health in Europe health-campaign-Be-part-of-it

UN climate negotiations

Warsaw COP 19 facebook.com/cough4coal

EU: less than 50 new plants in the pipeline Turkey: around 80

Coal renaissance in Europe? - world coal price low - shalegas boom (USA) - energy autonomy

What does coal pollution cost our health? - 18,200 premature deaths -5,500 hospital admissions -8,500 cases of bronchitis billion Euro health costs

Brain Heart Vasculature Lungs Blood Accelerated progression and exacerbation of COPD Increased respiratory symptoms Reduced lung function Higher lung cancer risk Reduced oxygen saturation Peripheral thrombosis Increased cerebrovascular ischemia Altered cardiac autonomic function Oxidative stress Increased myocardial ischemia Atherosclerosis Hypertension Source: HEAL 2013, adapted from APHEKOM 2012, Pope & Dockery 2006

Will they change?

Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) 28, Blvd. Charlemagne B-1000 Brussels campaign-Be-part-of-it

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