Environmental pollution escalates rapidly causing serious problems to different sectors like human health, both mental and physical. Biodiversity loss means that the ecosystems lose the ability to provide services like carbon sequestration and decontamination, which leads to mass extinction of species.

The Action Plan aims to strengthen the EU green, digital and economic leadership, whilst creating a healthier, socially fairer Europe and planet. It provides a compass to mainstream pollution prevention in all relevant EU policies, to step up implementation of the relevant EU legislation and to identify possible gaps.