I attended the AMA’s Rising Temperatures, Rising Risks Roundtable on Tuesday 11th February, representing RACGP and having my membership of AFMW acknowledged there.

The evidence is clear and indisputable.

Pollution from burning fossil fuels is trapping heat, making our world hotter and more unstable. This is hurting the people and places we love and destroying our way of life.

AFMW and Climate Health

Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA)

The Climate and Health Alliance is a coalition of health care stakeholders who work together to see the threat to human health from climate change and ecological degradation addressed through prompt policy action. The membership of CAHA includes organisations (including ours) and individuals from across the health sector, with organisations representing health care professionals from medicine, nursing, public health, social work and psychology, as well as health care service providers, research and academic institutions, and health consumers.

Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA)

Doctors for the Environment Australia calls on us all to protect the health of Australians from worsening climate change.

We cannot delay implementing smart climate policies.

Instead of using polluting fossil fuels, we can power our cities and towns with clean, cost-effective renewable energy solutions that are available now. Solar and wind, already account for approximately 40 per cent of Australia’s total electricity supply.

We cannot wait 30 years for nuclear energy. Nor does this country have the necessary water resources to sustain nuclear energy. This path will trap us into continuing to burn polluting fossil fuels, it will be hugely expensive, and it poses serious environmental and health risks.

We have solutions now that are better for our health, can conserve our environment, can ease the cost of living, and give us, our children, and our grandchildren a safe future.

AFMW will be well served by maintaining these links to prominent climate action groups and demonstrating leadership on behalf of women and children who will bear the brunt of rising temperatures and extreme weather events.