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Media release: Australia deserves certainty on net zero target
April 27, 2022 - ...of $1.4 billion. Dr Humphrey said this was not a firm commitment to net zero. She was responding to comments made in Queensland by LNP contender for the seat of Flynn, Colin Boyce who said that net zero was a flexible plan and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, who added that the government’s commitment to net zero was not binding. Mr Joyce added there was no legislation attached to previous promises of net zero. Dr Humphrey said strong climate policy would improve the health of all Australians. “Heat-related deaths and other health issues associated with climate change are severely...
NHS Progressing Towards Net-Zero Commitment
October 5, 2021 - – Congratulations to the NHS! A year since the NHS’s net-zero commitment in October 2020, it has reported on progress to the NHS Public Board. Their annualised reduction target of approximately 1,260 kt CO2, has been reached—reduction equivalent to 1.7 million flights from London to New York, or 1.1 million homes in the UK. Doctors for the Environment Australia’s proposal for an Australian National Sustainable Healthcare Unit can be found here. Also check out our full report, Net zero carbon emissions: responsibilities, pathways and opportunities for Australia’s healthcare sector....
DEA in the news
November 24, 2021 - ...Canberra Times and other mastheads across Australian Community Media, 27 Oct. Oped by Dr Graeme McLeay On planet, health and hope: what a roller coaster of a ride Croakey, 27 Oct. iDEA21 twitter narrative Mind if I smoke? Kicking the petrol habit is no idling matter The Driven, 27 Oct. Quotes Dr Richard Yin Climate intricately linked to your health… 4CA AM, Breakfast with Murray Jones, 26 Oct. Interview with Dr Nicole Sleeman Lessons from senior medical leaders MJA Insight+, 25 Oct. Co-authored by Dr Katherine Barraclough Poor EV take-up to cost Australia’s health system $1tn by 2050, modelling shows The Guardian, 24 Oct. Quotes...
We must protect biodiversity if we are to protect ourselves
January 24, 2013 - ...reefs, one of the planet’s richest sources of biodiversity, have come under multiple assaults. Warming ocean temperatures, driven by climate change, ocean acidification driven by the increased CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, result in coral bleaching causing symbiotic algae, normally an essential source of oxygen and sugars for the coral, to become toxic. If we lose coral reefs we will lose protection against storm surges and waves as well as untold numbers of species that are dependent upon reef ecosystems and, with them, all the medicinal potential they may possess. ‘What is the medical value of marine biodiversity?’ estimates that...