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 ...
Our Work
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.
Future of Gas Strategy Consultation Paper
November 30, 2023 - In the Future of Gas Strategy consultation paper, DEA finds that human health and wellbeing have been overlooked in favour of the economic interests of the fossil fuel industry along with short ...
Federal Senate inquiry into the Climate Change Amendment (Duty of Care and Intergenerational Climate Equity) Bill 2023
November 27, 2023 - DEA wholeheartedly supports a legislated requirement that the government invoke the wellbeing ofcurrent and future generations as its paramount consideration when faced with administrativedecisions that have genuine potential to cause ...
Middle Arm Industrial Precinct Submission
November 10, 2023 - The Middle Arm Precinct is a proposed 1,200-hectare industrial development that will be situated in Darwin Harbour, 13 km from Darwin’s CBD and within just 3 km of the major ...
Submission: Climate Change (Net Zero Future) Bill 2023
October 30, 2023 - Dr. Shaun Watson & Dr. Cybele Dey appeared at the NSW Parliamentary inquiry (Planning and Environment Committee) into the Climate Change (Net Zero Future) Bill 2023 and presented DEA’s submission ...