May 8, 2023 - Floods and severe storms are harmful to our health. Extreme weather is becoming more common with climate change, and is demanding and costly to individuals, communities and health systems. This ...
Resources
Nature, Our Medicine – After Hours Webinar
March 15, 2023 - The natural world provides our life support system- giving us clean air and water, a stable climate and healthy soils to grow our food. Earth’s biological richness, or biodiversity, offers ...
Safeguard Mechanism reform: submission on proposed design
February 23, 2023 - The Safeguard Mechanism is one of the few levers government has to reduce industrial emissions. It covers the 215 biggest emitters in Australia (not including the electricity sector) which release ...
Singleton Horticulture Project submission
February 20, 2023 - While we await the finding of the Supreme Court into the legality of the water licence, we have here outlined a range of other critical environmental, social and health issues ...
AMA and DEA joint submission to the ACSQHC –Sustainable Healthcare Module
February 14, 2023 - The AMA and DEA recommend that the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality of Health Care (ACSQHC) consult with the Department of Health and Aged Care’s National Health Sustainability and ...
21/22 Annual Report now available
November 25, 2022 - Doctors for the Environment Australia(DEA) Board Chair Dr John Van Der Kallen proudly launched the organisation’s 21/22 Annual Report at its Annual General Meeting on Monday 21 November 2022. In ...
Public Consultation on the draft Climate Change Policy and draft Action Plan 2022-2025
November 22, 2022 - DEA welcomes the development of new climate change environmental quality objectives, guidelines, and policy by the NSW EPA, in recognition of its duty under the POEA act. We would like ...
Surgeons first to sign up to new green guidelines
November 18, 2022 - The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) has become the first medical college in Australia to sign up to the newly released Green College Guidelines. The guidelines, which have been ...
Fact Sheet: Asthma and Indoor Gas Appliances
October 13, 2022 - Asthma has many triggers, and these vary from person to person: respiratory virus infection, dust mites, mould, and indoor air pollution. One exposure that is often overlooked is the nitrogen ...
Submission to the Consultation Paper on Native Forest Wood Waste in the Renewable Energy Target
October 10, 2022 - Because of the serious environmental consequences of burning native forest biomass for electricity generation, no case can be made for its continuation.Importantly, the burning of native forest biomass adds to ...
Joint DEA & AMA webinar: Climate change and sustainability: leadership and action from Australian doctors
August 9, 2022 - Co-hosted by Doctors for the Environment Australia and the Australian Medical Association, this webinar once again brought together medical professionals and Australia’s medical colleges to facilitate the sharing of information, ...
North West Shelf Project Extension Appeal
July 8, 2022 - The EPA has recommended that the project be approved. Doctors for the Environment Australia disagrees. The EPA has not applied conditions that are its best endeavours, nor fully considered the ...
Educational Resource: Mapping Climate Change and Health into the Medical Curriculum
March 30, 2022 - Co-development of a ‘Planetary Health-Organ System Map’ for Graduate Medical Education It is imperative that educating the medical workforce to understand, address and mitigate the health effects of climate change ...
DEA: All Electric Hospital Guide
March 24, 2022 - DEA’s sustainable health care Special Interest Group (SIG) have released a new guide for medical practitioners. ‘Building the next zero hospital to be net zero carbon emissions (all-electric): A six ...
RACGP: Climate health impact posters, free to download and use in clinic waiting rooms
March 23, 2022 - Dr Kate Charlesworth, public health physician and DEA member along with RACGP have recently launched seven posters for waiting rooms, alerting patients to the risks of climate-health impacts. The posters have ...
Submission to the public exhibition of the NSW Design and Place SEPP, and the Apartment Design Guide Feb 2022
March 3, 2022 - Doctors for the Environment Australia recently welcomed the opportunity to provide a submission to the NSW government on the health aspects of a revision of a State Environmental Planning Policy ...
Northern Territory Environmental Protection Authority (NTEPA)for Santos’ proposed Darwin Pipeline Duplication Project
February 23, 2022 - NT DEA Chair Brooke Ah Shay states ” This project will generate significant greenhouse gas emissions, have significant negative environmental impacts on Darwin Harbour, and the Middle Arm LNG processing ...
Submission to the Low Emissions Technology Statement 2022
February 6, 2022 - There is much of positive value in the roadmap, including ultra-low cost solar, low emissions steel, aluminium, and potentially cement, charging infrastructure for electrified transport, and reducing livestock emissions. However, ...
Pre Budget-Submission
January 6, 2022 - Measures to protect future health must be considered alongside the ongoing acceptance of medical and scientific expertise which leads the response to the COVID19 pandemic. The level of scientific expertise ...
Friends of DEA Newsletter- new edition out now!
November 26, 2021 - Read the latest news on the issues that matter, how DEA is joining the dots on climate change and health and how you can help us make an impact.