Amy Coopes writes: Climate change and its impact on health and health systems will be front and centre of this year’s annual summit of Australian and New Zealand emergency doctors in nipalun... Read more
This week, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, who must surely go down in history as one of the great champions for global health, addressed the British Parliament. She castigated the UK for frackin... Read more
Melissa Sweet writes: Labor has re-committed to implementing a national strategy on climate change and health, following concerns raised yesterday by leading health experts about the omissio... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on limiting global warming to 1.5°C, due for release on 8 October, will add to the heat on the Australia... Read more
Scott Morrison has a timing problem. Last year, he sought to ridicule renewable energy supporters by passing a lump of coal around Parliament, saying, “Don’t be afraid, don’t be scared... Read more
With non-stop news about the devastating impacts of climate change (check out our #JustClimate archive on Twitter for plenty of such examples), it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale of... Read more
(Introduction by Croakey) High-income countries like Australia need to urgently reduce per capita resource consumption to about 20 percent of what it is now, according to a prominent public... Read more