October 18, 2021 - Mental health experts including Dr Cybele Dey call for urgent and real action on climate change, as evidence emerges that higher temperatures and extreme weather events including floods and droughts ...

October 13, 2021 - One in 11 Australians live in this part of the country that already experiences temps 10C hotter than other parts. But it’s going to get worse. Read the full article ...

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 ...

August 30, 2021 - Hayden Burch has authored an outstanding article in the Spring edition of the magazine, VICDOC. You can access it here.

June 24, 2021 - A GP whose property was hit by the storm, Associate Professor Vicki Kotsirilos, has called for Primary Health Networks (PHNs), as well as peak medical organisations, to assist with planning ...

May 31, 2021 - “Early in May 2021, the Victorian Government released the updated Victoria’s Climate Change Strategy. The state pledged a 45–50% carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent (CO2e) emissions reduction by 2030 and net zero emissions ...

May 3, 2021 - To read the open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, click here

April 23, 2021 - We've signed an open letter calling on the government to scrap this proposal.

April 20, 2021 - By DEA member Graeme McLeay.

April 8, 2021 - Dr Kim Loo, chair of the New South Wales chapter of Doctors for the Environment, has lived and worked in western Sydney her whole life. Over the years she has watched the market gardens once run by Maltese families out on the flood plain give way to new housing as developers have paved over the open ground.

April 7, 2021 - Op-ed by DEA member Dr Robert Llewellyn-Jones.

March 31, 2021 - Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on the Berejiklian government to pause the approval of new coal mines in NSW, saying the industry is already in decline and some ...

March 31, 2021 - Doctors welcome the Victorian Government’s decision to reject AGL’s proposal to build a 300-metre floating gas import terminal at Westernport Bay, describing it as a major win for public health. ...

March 31, 2021 - Doctors for the Environment Australia warns any plans to expand coal mining in the Hunter Valley and other parts of  NSW, as highlighted by new research, will have serious repercussions for ...

March 22, 2021 - Getting to net zero emissions and phasing out fossil fuels, could save over 8 million lives globally every year, writes Kate Charlesworth.

March 10, 2021 - Reporting on the election briefing are Dr Richard Yin, a GP in Perth and National Secretary of Doctors for the Environment Australia, Dr Brett Montgomery, a GP and representative of Doctors Reform Society in WA, Jaime Yallup Farrant, Convenor of Climate Justice Union, Louise Giolitto, CEO of WA Council of Social Service, and Fiona Armstrong, Executive Director of Climate and Health Alliance.

March 10, 2021 - News that the owners of the Yallourn power station are bringing forward closure to 2028 is a step forward to reduction of pollution and emissions.

March 3, 2021 - Dr Helen Redmond, visiting medical officer for Sydney's MetroRehab Hospital and divestment convenor for Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA), gave a TED talk in late 2020 explaining how climate change impacts on public health.

March 1, 2021 - Experts worldwide, including the World Health Organisation, consider climate change to be the greatest global health threat of the 21st century. Continue reading… Find our full report on climate change and the ...

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…