The zero pollution ambition is a cross-cutting objective contributing to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and complementing the 2050 climate-neutrality goal in synergy with the clean and circular economy and restored biodiversity goals.
The main objective of this action plan is to provide a compass for including pollution prevention in all relevant EU policies, maximising synergies in an effective and proportionate way, stepping up implementation and identifying possible gaps or trade-offs. To steer the EU towards the 2050 vision of a Healthy Planet for All, this action plan sets key 2030 targets to speed up pollution reduction.
The zero pollution targets for 2030
Under EU law, Green Deal ambitions and in synergy with other initiatives, by 2030 the EU should reduce:
- by more than 55% the health impacts (premature deaths) of air pollution;
- by 30% the share of people chronically disturbed by transport noise;
- by 25% the EU ecosystems where air pollution threatens biodiversity;
- by 50% nutrient losses, the use and risk of chemical pesticides, the use of the more hazardous ones, and the sale of antimicrobials for farmed animals and in aquaculture;
- by 50% plastic litter at sea and by 30% microplastics released into the environment;
- significantly total waste generation and by 50% residual municipal waste.
Here the link to the full EU commisson document https://ec.europa.eu/environment/pdf/zero-pollution-action-plan/communication_en.pdf
To build a Healthy Planet for All, the European Green Deal calls for the EU to better monitor, report, prevent and remedy air, water, soil and consumer products pollution, among other things.
https://ec.europa.eu/environment/pdf/zero-pollution-action-plan/communication_en.pdf
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