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Human health depends upon a healthy environment.
The current age of scientific innovation has meant humans have become a dominant influence in shaping the natural world. This has raised the stakes and meant an unprecedented capacity to degrade our natural environment.
While great progress has been made in improving human health, particular in Australia and other OECD countries, local and global environmental degradation now threaten those gains.
DEA urges governments to address the current and future impacts of environmental degradation on human health.
Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) is an organisation of doctors who recognise that human health and wellbeing require an environment:
- free of pollution
- capable of providing nutritious food
- rich in biodiversity
- able to provide for current and future generations sustainably.
Push for healthcare sector to reduce carbon footprint
December 17, 2020 - Croakey author Nicole Mackee quotes Hayden Burch co-author of the DEA zero net emissions report, in this article reporting on how far behind Australia is in reducing our greenhouse gas ...
Healthcare must be part of climate change solution
December 17, 2020 - PRESENTLY, the world is on track for a 3.2°C temperature rise with current emission pledges – a temperature incompatible with human civilisation, let alone healthy populations.….Written by DEA members Eugenie Kayak and ...
Report: Net Zero Emissions for Australia’s healthcare sector (14 Dec 2020)
December 13, 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 ...
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, ...
Media release: DEA welcomes the WA Climate and Health Inquiry
December 7, 2020 - DEA welcomes the WA Climate and Health Inquiry the first statutory inquiry in the world focused on the health impacts of climate change. WA DEA Chair Dr Emma-Leigh Synnott says that ...
Media Release: Launch of 2020 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
December 2, 2020 - In response to the 2020 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change which has revealed the most concerning trends in climate change impacts to date, DEA is ...
Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bills 2020
November 20, 2020 - Zali Steggall’s proposed climate change Bills have triggered the first parliamentary inquiry into why Australia should commit and legislate to net zero emissions by 2050. The Bills will assist the ...
Doctors: Set emissions targets to zero as quickly as possible to address dangerous climate change
November 13, 2020 - Doctors are urging all state and federal governments to set emissions targets to zero as quickly as possible to address dangerous climate change. Medical group Doctors for the Environment Australia is responding to the ...
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 ...
DEA applauds the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap
November 9, 2020 - Doctors for the Environment Australia has welcomed the NSW Government’s electricity infrastructure roadmap for the orderly switch of NSW’s energy supply from coal to renewable energy sources. The burning of ...
DEA and AMA partner on climate
October 26, 2020 - Read our media release here.
The Mandarin Opinion: health, not gas, should be put at the centre of Australia’s economic recovery
October 21, 2020 - “In a future where climate change looms large as a threat to health and where our primary disease burden is shaped by lifestyle and environment, shouldn’t we place health front ...
Croakey: Where was Australia during the UN biodiversity summit?
October 21, 2020 - Given Australia’s rich natural endowment, Northern Territory GP Dr Rosalie Schultz asks: why was Australia missing in action during the recent United Nations Biodiversity Summit? If, as our representatives stated ...
MJA letter to the editor: A sustainable future in health, ensuring as health professionals our own house is in order and leading by example
October 21, 2020 - “Congratulations to the Medical Journal of Australia for emphasising the role of health professionals in needing to lead by example towards a sustainable future,” write Drs Eugenie Kayak, Forbes McGain and Hayden ...
2020 Federal Budget: Vales Point should be given pollution fees not grants
October 8, 2020 - Inclusion of a grant in the federal budget for Vales Point power station is an outrageous misuse of public funds, says Doctors for the Environment Australia’s spokesperson Dr Ben Ewald. ...
DEA Code of Conduct
October 7, 2020 - Introduction The integrity and reputation of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) relies on its representatives upholding and promoting the highest ethical and professional standards. The DEA Code of Conduct ...
National Preventive Health Strategy Consultation Paper (5 Oct 2020)
October 5, 2020 - A consultation paper was released by the federal Department of Health calling for feedback on a National Preventive health framework to guide its strategy for the next decade. The consultation ...
Victorian inquiry into environmental infrastructure for growing populations (5 Oct 2020)
October 5, 2020 - The Environment and Planning Committee of the Victorian Legislative Assembly has called for submissions to an inquiry into the current and future arrangements to secure environmental infrastructure, particularly parks and ...
Doctors call on the Australian health sector to follow NHS England’s commitment to a net-zero target
October 2, 2020 - Doctors for the Environment Australia commends England’s National Health Service (NHS) commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040, and calls on the Australian health sector to likewise commit ...