Life

In the summer of 2026 the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region faced prolonged and closely spaced heatwaves. Between late June and early July the WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) issued two official statements and convened an emergency meeting among Member States. This factsheet gathers the data and measures made public on those occasions.…

Air quality, the availability of green areas and the way daily journeys are organised have become fixed items on the European urban policy agenda. International documents, new rules and pilot schemes of recent years point towards a rethinking of the places where most of the population lives. This piece gathers the main reference points, without…