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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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The Hill: Climate change emergency cannot be solved by disintegrating democracies
Our western democracies can no longer deliver consensus and action on issues that threaten humanity such as climate change, writes Dr David Shearman. Governments are unwilling to accept that many ......
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MJAInsight+: COP26 opportunities missed for Australian health care
AT the UN climate change conference (COP26) in Glasgow, over 50 countries participated in the COP26 Health Programme and committed to strengthen the climate resilience and sustainability of their health systems. Yet...
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Media release: Labor’s emissions reduction target is out of step with the science
Labor’s new target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent by 2030, if it wins power at the next election, is much weaker than what we need to curb ......
Media Releases News & MediaPlease donate to our end of year appeal
Watch our end of year video here. As the dust settles on the UN Climate talks in Glasgow, two things have become very clear: the world is capable of making ......
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Friends of DEA Newsletter- new edition out now!
Read the latest news on the issues that matter, how DEA is joining the dots on climate change and health and how you can help us make an impact....
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DEA in the news
DEA in the news: Sep to Nov 2021 Impact of Climate Change: Scientists warn of its effect on public health CGTN, 24 Nov. Quotes Dr Cybele Dey Richard Yin: For health’s sake, we ......
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iDEA 2021- it’s a wrap!
iDEA2021: Planet Health and Hope was an exciting, motivating conference, held online on 16 to 17 October 2021. This was DEAs annual conference, and this year it marked the 20th ......
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COP26 is over. What happens next?
The UN COP26 conference represented the most important climate event of our time. What are the take-aways? Doctors for the Environment Australia Chair Dr John Van Der Kallen says: It ......
Event Our WorkVales Point Power Station: oppose the granting of a licence exemption.
Doctors for the Environment Australia are concerned by the extremely generous license conditions allowing NSW power stations to pollute at much higher levels than similar facilities overseas Drs Ben Ewald ......
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Germanwatch: Australia 58th on the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI)
Australia slipped four places to 58th in this year’s CCPI, remaining behind many developed economies. Very low ratings were given for its performance in every category. DEA is not...
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