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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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How climate change is impacting your health
Dr Helen Redmond, visiting medical officer for Sydney's MetroRehab Hospital and divestment convenor for Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA), gave a TED talk in late 2020 explaining how climate change impacts on public health....
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Launch of New Report on Sustainable Healthcare
Health professionals are increasingly treating climate-related illnesses, and healthcare services are vulnerable to a range of risks, including an increase in patient demand and threats to infrastructure, workforce and supply chains....
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The health and financial imperative to improve health care’s environmental footprint
Experts worldwide, including the World Health Organisation, consider climate change to be the greatest global health threat of the 21st century. Continue reading… Find our full report on climate change and the ......
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Environmental collapse: It’s time economists put the planet on their balance sheets
“A ‘ground-sparing’ economic report on biodiversity indicates that economic practice will have to change because the world is finite,” writes DEA co-founder David Shearman. Continue reading…...
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‘Clean coal’ is nothing but a marketing scam: Energy experts
DEA members, along with other health professionals, have spoken out against a proposed bill that would allow the government to redirect funds intended for clean energy projects towards new coal developments....
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Australia lagging behind on electric vehicles and climate action
It was released as the Future Fuels Strategy and if anyone is in doubt as to whether the Government takes decarbonisation of the economy or climate change seriously, they need look no ......
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Review says government must act decisively to overhaul Australia’s major environmental laws
Last week, the long-awaited final report from a legislated 10 year review of the EPBC Act was released. DEA welcomes its recognition of the fundamental failings of the Act and its call for far-reaching reforms to improve environmental...
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Environmental Change and Cardiovascular Disease
An article about the nexus between climate change and cardiovascular disease, written by DEA member, Dr Fiona Foo....
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Dendrobium coal mine expansion rejected by planning commission
South32 had sought permission to extract an additional 78 million tonnes of coal from its Dendrobium mine, west of Wollongong, until 2048....
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High Court orders fresh hearings into approvals for New Acland coal mine expansion
High Court orders fresh hearings into approvals for New Acland coal mine expansion...
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