September 7, 2021 - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said “a target of net zero 2050 emissions to address the climate emergency is an illusion, net zero must be in the next decade. There must ...
Opinion Pieces
Young People’s Climate Anxiety is Valid; Not Caused By So-Called “Alarmist” Activism
September 2, 2021 - – Recent efforts by two Liberal MPs to link mental health problems in young people to “alarmist” climate activism in an effort to secure extra funding for the school chaplaincy ...
Australia needs help from the US to defuse the ‘gas bomb’
August 19, 2021 - “A recent UN report states that reducing human-caused methane emissions is a most cost-effective strategy to rapidly reduce the rate of global warming and limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. ...
Hurt the Land, Hurt the People
August 19, 2021 - “In 1975 Dr Bob Brown, motivated by a passion to fight for the environment, stood as a candidate for the United Tasmania Group. “This is widely acknowledged to have been ...
The EU tariff plan is good news for Australia’s place in the World
July 29, 2021 - “The steady deterioration in Australia’s environment and the ineffective revision of the EPBC Act suggests that we need help from other developed nations to solve our problem. This help may ...
How the US could help Australia develop climate action
July 29, 2021 - “There comes a time when the citizens of one country need help from another country to solve crucial problems. In the case of Australia, help is not for poverty, chaos ...
The Coalition is sinking in the uncharted waters of the Murray Darling
July 19, 2021 - Deals between the Liberal and National parties could further imperil water policy and spell a dark future for the climate and sustainability efforts, writes Dr David Shearman. Continue reading…
Outcomes of the ‘Biodiversity, Natural Capital and the Economy’ Report at the G7 Summit
June 29, 2021 - Following Australia’s extravagant claims to climate leadership at the G7, hopes for a more diplomatic approach were dashed by a Prime Ministerial statement claiming that “Australia is a frontrunner when ...
The curse of coal and government health malfeasance
June 29, 2021 - “Policies which prolong the life of coal shorten the lives of many Australians and must be confronted – they are preventable deaths. It is distressing that ideology and ignorance have ...
Mr Morrison, the G7 Summit and the report “Biodiversity, Natural Capital and the Economy”
June 10, 2021 - “When Mr Morrison arrives at the G7 Leaders Summit later this week he will have before him a report on Biodiversity and if he reads and understands it he will ...
Democratic reform is vital to address the climate and environmental crises
May 31, 2021 - "Society faces a fast moving confluence of climate change, environmental decay, and increasing zoonoses but fails to recognise the most compelling underlying problem, the crumbling ability of democratic systems to deliver any meaningful action", writes our co-founder, Dr David Shearman.
Independent Australia: Kids prepare another strike against government climate inaction
May 21, 2021 - Today, schoolchildren will again take to the streets to protest that Government policy is failing the next generation. Dr Graeme McLeay writes “to the young people coming out to demonstrate ...
Renew Economy: Australia must kick the gas habit, because it is bad for our health
May 7, 2021 - The Federal Government is continuing its push for a so-called ‘gas-led’ recovery. How could this be when the evidence of health impacts from polluting gas has hardened considerably? Read DEA ...
Roadmap to sustainable health care
May 3, 2021 - Op-ed by one of our members, Dr Eugenie Kayak.
A fossil fuel frenzy is drinking Australia’s finite water resources
April 14, 2021 - The Productivity Commission has produced a 232 page Draft Report on the functioning of the 2004 National Water Initiative (NWI), writes Professor David Shearman.
The importance of environmental water: is the national water initiative up to the job?
April 14, 2021 - Op-ed by our co-founder, Professor David Shearman.
Overhaul water policy development, for the sake of our health
April 12, 2021 - Health and medical expertise should be much more involved in the development of water policy, given its critical importance for health and wellbeing, according to Professor David Shearman, co-founder of Doctors for the Environment Australia.
How droughts and flooding rains affect Australians’ mental health
April 7, 2021 - Op-ed by DEA member Dr Robert Llewellyn-Jones.
Should you talk with your doctor about climate change? | Helen Redmond | TEDxDarlinghurst
December 9, 2020 - Climate Change has been declared a health emergency by doctors all over the world. Dr Helen Redmond explains in this compelling and inspirational TedxDarlinghurst talk why climate change is a health problem, ...
Independent Australia: Why can’t the Australian Healthcare Sector commit to net zero emissions if the National Health Service (NHS) can?
November 11, 2020 - The UK’s NHS has announced a wide-sweeping plan to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040, the first national health system in the world to do so, writes Dr Caroline ...