It goes out into the street at Corbeanca. The march is scheduled for Saturday

The Activ Corbeanca Association with the support of the Civic Platform Together for the Green Belt organizes Saturday, April 6, 2024, at 11 a.m. (parents with children who want to participate in a workshop on environmental and pollution topics are expected from 10.30 a.m.), starting from the Park Corbeanca (Strada Ogorului, Corbeanca commune, https://maps.app.goo.gl/QHteF3jT5FG5vksR6), the second March for Clean Air, Forests, Health and Future to ask the national, county and local authorities for immediate measures to improve air quality and the creation of the Bucharest – Ilfov Green Belt.

The Activ Corbeanca Association (www.activcorbeanca.ro) and the Civic Platform Together for the Green Belt (www.centuraverde.ro) urge and invite the communities of Ilfov and Bucharest, citizens of all ages, from young to old, to join this march APOLITICAL and to claim the right to clean air and a healthy environment, as it is, moreover, also stipulated in the Romanian Constitution. The event is part of a series of actions that will be organized in Ilfov, in the capital and anywhere in the country where necessary, as long as it is needed. Active Association
Corbeanca is a member of the Civic Platform Together for the Green Belt.

After, in recent weeks, in Corbeanca and its surroundings, the illegal burning of waste made the air unbreathable, a fact proven by the monitoring sensors, hundreds of residents of Corbeanca protested on Saturday, March 23, alongside neighbors from Baloteşti, Mogoşoaia and Buftea, in an unprecedented anti-pollution march for the communities of Ilfov. The lack of involvement of the authorities at all levels brought people to the streets. In an action that took place over three kilometers and lasted three hours, the participants chanted “We want clean air”, “No pollution”, “Forests for people”, “We want the Green Belt”, “No illegal burning” or “Ilfov clean”.

In Romania, annually 29,000 people die prematurely due to air pollution. We are the country in the European Union with the highest social cost of health associated with it. For many years, Bucharest has been in the top 3 of the most polluted capitals in the EU, recording the biggest budget losses associated with the treatment of diseases caused or worsened by pollution
air, with an annual loss of EUR 6.35 billion.

Bucharest residents could have a four-year longer life expectancy. This is the official conclusion of a 2020 report by the National Institute of Public Health. This would happen if the authorities met their already assumed targets for combating pollution.

With all the pollution in the city and due to the disappearance of the last forests around it, we run out of air. We will not have clean air in Bucharest as long as, beyond the anti-pollution measures taken inside it and the fight against the illegal burning of waste in Ilfov, there will not be a
surrounding green belt for the capital, as happens in the great metropolises of the world.

At the same time, through an online petition that has already collected over 11,500 signatures, (https://campaniamea.declic.ro/p/ImpreunaPentruCenturaVerde), the Civic Platform Together for the Green Belt invites citizens to join in asking political and executive decision-makers for concrete measures for Clean Air, Health and the Future.