This briefing document prepared by CAHA (Climate and Health Alliance) provides a summary of the key findings related to health and wellbeing from the February 2022 IPCC report. The CAHA report “Climate Change is a Health Crisis – Health Messages from the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” can be accessed here.
Our friends at Healthy Futures have put together some excellent resources we can share with our members and on our website. As doctors who are trying to decarbonise our own practices, switching to a clean energy producer is a good initial step and the Green Electricity Guide by Greenpeace is an excellent resource. RACGP has produced posters GPs/doctors can post in their clinics. Please share with your colleagues and posts in your rooms.
The recent demonstration where Doctors, Nurses Staged An AGL Climate Protest, received widespread media coverage. A media report collating coverage suggest that the audience reach for the TV and radio segments was around 250,000 people! See the coverage list.
I was interviewed at the Healthy Futures demonstration outside the AGL offices today, where dozens of health workers, doctors and nurses called for AGL to cease mining coal and transition to renewable clean energy by 2030. AGL’s current plan is to make this transition by 2048 which is in contrast to the IPCC, COP26 & WHO recommendations.
Here is a short guide to acting on climate change as a health professional, in your community and as an individual. Source and pdf download by Climate and Health Alliance.
Despite recommendations from international leaders and warnings from scientific evidence to reduce a reliance of fossil fuel economic recovery at COP26, the Australian government has 116 fossil fuel projects in the pipeline, which together would see our emissions increase by almost 30%. This article, originally posted in The Conversation, presents the science everyone needs to know about climate change, in 6 charts.
On October 29th, 2021 some AFMW CHAG members and I attended the launch which of this important CAHA framework, called “Healthy, Regenerative and Just – Framework for a national strategy on climate, health and well-being for Australia”. Read the report and watch the interview with Professor Peter Doherty.
Originally published at The Lancet, this report investigates the deepening inequities in a warming world and how an inequitable response fails everyone.
Australia ranks last out of 54 nations on its strategy to cope with climate change. AFMW is committed to amplifying the voice of the Climate and Health Alliance, along with DEA in contributing to the the National Strategy on Climate, Health and Well-being in Australia.
AFMW is exploring alternative banking institutions, as part of our commitment to climate change advocacy towards zero emissions.
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