Improving the energy efficiency of homes is important for climate action and also brings many other health benefits, according to Kellie Caught, Senior Advisor, Climate and Energy, at the Au... Read more
Please join us on 24 September for a Twitter festival focused on the climate crisis and its implications for public health, healthcare and wellbeing. This event will be held as new commitmen... Read more
(This post was updated on 23 September with more tweets and links). The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has urged young people to continue their fight for climate... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: There are growing calls for drastic cuts to the working week to help fight climate change, including from a discussion paper released earlier this year by UK progres... Read more
World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has tweeted that he is on the way to New York for this week’s UN Climate Action Summit, and looking forward to... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Businesses, health services, trade unions, universities and other institutions are supporting today’s historic school strike, while some academics have signed an ope... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Evidence tells us that lower-income and other disadvantaged groups (and nations) contribute least to causing climate change but are likely to be most negatively affe... Read more
The health sector is currently a big part of the problem in the climate emergency we are facing, generating around seven per cent of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions. A coalition o... Read more
Our throwaway culture is in hyperdrive in hospitals, heavily contributing to the over-sized carbon footprint of the health sector generally and creating serious health and environmental risk... Read more
Hospital emergency departments are at the forefront of dealing with the impacts of the increasing number of floods, heatwaves, bushfires and other natural disasters that are being driven by... Read more
