March 5, 2024 - Effective consultation on fossil fuel developments (including offshore resource activities) is impaired by: multiple failures of the current policy and regulatory framework that privileges the priorities of well-resourced fossil fuel ...
Our Work
Human health depends upon a healthy environment.
The current age of scientific innovation has meant humans have become a dominant influence in shaping the natural world. This has raised the stakes and meant an unprecedented capacity to degrade our natural environment.
While great progress has been made in improving human health, particular in Australia and other OECD countries, local and global environmental degradation now threaten those gains.
DEA urges governments to address the current and future impacts of environmental degradation on human health.
Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) is an organisation of doctors who recognise that human health and wellbeing require an environment:
- free of pollution
- capable of providing nutritious food
- rich in biodiversity
- able to provide for current and future generations sustainably.
New Vehicle Efficiency Standard for Australia
March 5, 2024 - Public transport, active transport, and micro-mobility solutions should be prioritised to reduce congestion, improve air quality and health as well as reduce emissions.In addition, a strong fuel efficiency standard is ...
DEA’s submission on Health Technology Assessment Policy and Methods review
February 22, 2024 - The Australian Government’s Department of Health and Aged Care is undertaking a review of the Health Technology Assessment Policy and Methods. In response to the second round of consultations, Doctors for ...
Protecting the Spirit of Sea Country Bill 2023
February 21, 2024 - DEA sees the Protecting the Spirit of Sea Country Bill 2023 as a positive step in the recognition of First Nations sovereignty of both Land and Sea Country across all ...
Joint media release: WA’s leading environmental groups call on Cook Government to scrap changes to EPA
February 13, 2024 - Doctors for the Environment Australia has today joined environmental conservation organisations across Western Australia in calling on the Cook Government to reject proposed changes to the state’s Environmental Protection Authority ...