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AMA and DEA Make Joint Call for Emissions Reduction in Healthcare
Climate change is a health emergency, which is already contributing to life-threatening illness and deaths and the Australian healthcare sector is part of the problem – contributing about 7 per cent to Australia’s national carbon...
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Report: Net Zero Emissions for Australia’s healthcare sector (14 Dec 2020)
Towards net zero emissions in healthcare The changing climate is exposing our patients and communities to more frequent and intense extreme weather. Health professionals are increasingly treating climate-related illnesses, and ......
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DEA welcomes HCWH’s global road map for zero emissions in healthcare
Doctors for the Environment Australia welcomes the launch of Healthcare Without Harm’s global road map for healthcare decarbonisation. The report highlights how “all countries’ health systems will need to reach ......
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Climate Change Threatens Future of Sport in Australia
In a recent interview on the Doctors for the Environment Podcast, Dr Martin Rice from The Climate Council laid out how climate change is threatening almost every aspect of sport in Australia....
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A fossil fuel frenzy is drinking Australia’s finite water resources
The Productivity Commission has produced a 232 page Draft Report on the functioning of the 2004 National Water Initiative (NWI), writes Professor David Shearman....
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The importance of environmental water: is the national water initiative up to the job?
Op-ed by our co-founder, Professor David Shearman....
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Too hot, heading south: how climate change may drive one-third of doctors out of the NT
A study by DEA member Simon Quilty has found that a sizeable chunk of Northern Territory’s doctors are thinking about leaving the territory because of climate change....
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New Podcast Episode: Climate Change and Sport in Australia
In this episode of the Doctors for the Environment podcast, join Beau as he talks with Martin about the impact of climate change on sport in Australia and the role that sport has to play in tackling climate change....
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Overhaul water policy development, for the sake of our health
Health and medical expertise should be much more involved in the development of water policy, given its critical importance for health and wellbeing, according to Professor David Shearman, co-founder of Doctors for the Environment Australia....
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Fire and flood: ‘Whole areas of Australia will be uninsurable’
Dr Kim Loo, chair of the New South Wales chapter of Doctors for the Environment, has lived and worked in western Sydney her whole life. Over the years she has watched the market gardens once run by Maltese families out on the flood...
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How droughts and flooding rains affect Australians’ mental health
Op-ed by DEA member Dr Robert Llewellyn-Jones....
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SMH: Turnbull calls for halt on new coal mines, inquiry on rehabilitation funds
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on the Berejiklian government to pause the approval of new coal mines in NSW, saying the industry is already in decline and some ......
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