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.
In this InSight+ article, co-authored with Dr Kimberly Humphrey, Deputy Chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia, AFMW president, Associate Professor Magda Simonis discusses how gender and climate change are integrally linked.
This list of updates from The Conversation is all about Climate and why AFMW’s Climate Health Action Group (CHAG is so important. It explains why we as AFMW should be engaged and outspoken on this issue of climate change and climate health impacts.
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