Climate change is a health emergency posing significant threats to health and to the healthcare sector. Mapping Climate Change and Health into the Medical Curriculum demonstrates how planetary health is a cross cutting theme relevant to every specialty. Download the report.
A/Professor Magdalena Simonis Chair of AFMW Climate Health Action Group, along with Dr Kate Wylie, CEO of Doctors For the Environment Australia have a statement to make this International Women’s Day (IWD). It’s a call to include women in disaster management planning and leadership. Women bear the brunt of climate related disasters, and this article draws attention to this.
Health Day for COP28 is a special event that will take place on December 3, 2023 as part of the COP28 UN Climate Conference in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
At WONCA, representatives from around the world stood in unison, advocating to protect the planet and life of earth. Dr Maria Neira, World Health Organization Director for the Department of Environmental, Climate Change and Health, called climate change ‘potentially the greatest health challenge of the 21st Century’.
In this Women’s Agenda article, a group of more than 2000 Swiss women have taken their government to court claiming its failure to act on climate change is a violation of their human rights. We will watch this process closely.
A group of women leaders were asked, What is one thing you want to see women and girls achieve as we work to solve the climate crisis? My reply was,‘ I want to see the empowerment of women through education, access to technology and leadership of roles.Women across the globe have shown themselves to be innovators and instigators of meaningful and relevant climate action and policy. Investing in women will have substantial benefits for our planet and future generations.’ Watch the video.
The IPCC finalized the Synthesis Report for the Sixth Assessment Report during the Panel’s 58th Session. Australia and other developed countries must achieve net-zero emissions a decade earlier than most have promised, the chief of the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says.
On 2 February 2023, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) hosted a virtual stakeholder information session. This session outlined COP27 key outcomes, early COP28 expectations and an update on Australia’s bid to co-host COP31 in partnership with Pacific Island countries.
The CAHA (Climate and Health Alliance) has co-developed and signed on to a set of recommendations for governments ahead of COP27.
In this Women’s Agenda article, Angela Priestley interviews scientist Dr Joëlle Gergis on how her time as a lead author on the Sixth Assessment from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as through personally seeing the catastrophic impact of climate-related disasters here in Australia.
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