October 11, 2021 - – Climate change is increasingly driving more severe and frequent extreme weather events such as extreme heat, bushfires, storms and floods which have serious and wide-reaching impacts on the mental health of ...
Publications
Submissions Protocol: Revised September 2021
September 16, 2021 - FINDING OPPORTUNITIES TO WRITE SUBMISSIONS See Appendix 1 How to initiate a potential submission: · Track state and federal enquiries and identify those of relevance · Discuss with either SIGs, ...
National Sustainable Healthcare Unit Proposal
September 13, 2021 - Doctors for the Environment Australia supports the development of national Sustainable Healthcare Unit to coordinate environmentally sustainable initiatives in health care and reduce its carbon footprint. It would: standardise and benchmark the measurement of carbon emissions; develop a road map for, ...
Fact Check on Meeting GHG Targets
September 9, 2021 - By Dr Ben Ewald Question: Is Australia on track to reach its 2030 target of a 26% reduction from 2005 levels? To reach zero, all sectors will have to cut emissions, ...
How Climate Change Affects Your Health: The Facts
August 30, 2021 - – We’re proud to launch our new briefing document: How Climate Change Affects Your Health: The Facts.
Hunter Power Project (Kurri Kurri Power Station)
August 17, 2021 - Doctors for the Environment Australia made a submission to the New South Wales Department of Planning, Industry and Environment In June 2021 in regards to the Kurri Kurri Power Station. ...
Launch of New Public Facing Newsletter
August 16, 2021 - As our organisation grows, we’re able to bring more and more people into the conversation about climate change and health. As such, we’ve launched a new public-facing newsletter. The first ...
Beetaloo Cooperative Drilling Program
August 6, 2021 - DEA recently submitted a submission on the Industry Research and Development (BeetalooCooperative Drilling Program) Instrument. DEA has raised five key concerns about the Beetaloo Cooperative Drilling Program: The program will ...
Planning and Environment Inquiry into the Protection of the Environment Operations Amendment (Clean Air) Bill 2021
June 21, 2021 - The health effects from exposure to air pollution are well established, and around the world this has led to the introduction of progressively tighter pollution regulations for industrial and vehicle ...
Viva Energy Gas Terminal Project EES Draft Scoping Requirements
May 26, 2021 - Geelong’s Viva Energy refinery on the Corio Bay foreshore is the proposed site for a new gas import facility. DEA has provided a submission to the scoping requirements for the Environmental ...
Submission to the Inquiry into the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Regional Forest Agreements)Amendment Bill 2020
May 4, 2021 - Australia’s forests and woodlands are some of the most biodiverse ecosystemson the planet. They have unique intrinsic value but also make vital contributionsto human health.It is abundantly clear that over ...
Inquiry into the Health Impacts of Air Pollution in Victoria
April 26, 2021 - Over the past decade, DEA has advocated for improvements in air quality and air quality standards to protect health. DEA has recently provided a submission to Victorian Government Inquiry into ...
Draft NSW Clean air strategy 2021-2030
April 26, 2021 - Doctors for the Environment Australia welcomes the intention for a Clean Air Plan for NSW asconcerted cross government action is needed to reduce health damage from air pollution in thestate. ...
Release of Diet and Agriculture Pamphlets
April 26, 2021 - This week, we’re releasing a suit of educative resources focussed on diet, agriculture and the environmental. Thanks to several of our South Australian members for putting these resources together.
Review of Tasmania’s Climate Change (State Action)Act 2008 and Climate Change Plan
April 21, 2021 - In this document DEA Tasmania outlines a pathway for Tasmania’s Climate Change Act and Climate Action Plan to address the complex interrelated problems of climate change and health. Key themes ...
New Podcast Episode: Climate Change and Sport in Australia
April 13, 2021 - 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.
Future Fuels Strategy: Discussion Paper Powering Choice
April 6, 2021 - Click here to read our submission.
DEA Newsletter – March 2021
March 6, 2021 - [administrator notice: content below memberonly ] Click here to view the January edition of our monthly newsletter.
Environmental collapse: It’s time economists put the planet on their balance sheets
March 1, 2021 - “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…
Gas Fired Recovery Plan
February 28, 2021 - Doctors for the Environment Australia is strongly opposed to the Gas-led Recovery proposal. DEA contends that the proposal will lock in the production and use of gas at a time ...