December 8, 2023 - Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy represents an important whole-of-government plan to protect the health of Australians from the extreme threat of climate change, and build a sustainable, high-quality ...
Media Releases
The National Health and Climate Strategy is an important step, but to protect lives we must quit fossil fuels
December 4, 2023 - In this, the hottest recorded year in our planet’s history, Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) welcomes the National Health and Climate Strategy as an important step forward in protecting ...
Media Release: WA doctors and health professionals call for the government to take urgent action on climate change and end fossil fuel expansion to protect health
December 1, 2023 - 1st December On the 1st December, just prior to the COP28 Health Day on the 3rd December, representatives of the medical colleges for general practitioners (GPs), emergency doctors, rural and ...
Two-thirds of Australians back doctors’ call for “health trigger” for coal, gas projects
November 13, 2023 - Two-thirds of Australians support the federal government making new fossil fuel project approvals dependent on an assessment of their health impacts, according to new research by Doctors for the Environment ...
Fracking in the Beetaloo: Doctors urge PM to extend water trigger by Christmas
October 23, 2023 - Doctors For the Environment Australia is calling on the federal government to deliver a promise it made last year to expand the water trigger in the nation’s nature laws before ...