Fossil fuel subsidies cost Australians $10.3 billion in 2020-21 with one Commonwealth tax break alone ($7.84 billion) exceeding the $7.82 billion spent on the Australian Army, according to r... Read more
Pressure is growing on the Australian Government to act on the climate crisis, with the international health and medical sector calling for global action, reports Croakey editor Jennifer Dog... Read more
The multiple health impacts of climate change have been well documented in scientific and medical literature. However, less well studied has been the potential impact of increasing temperatu... Read more
The Australian Academy of Science today published a new climate change report that looks at consequences of 3°C of global warming for Australia – a devastating scenario published as communit... Read more
Below are reports from a climate and health advocacy campaign in Canberra this week, and some tips for media reporting on climate change (which may also be useful for Croakey readers). The C... Read more
A video report from a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Senegal offers a window into how climate change is devastating lives and property in West Africa. Rising sea levels have destroyed coastal... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Joe Biden’s executive actions to address the climate emergency have already marked him as the most ambitious president in US history to tackle global warming. Biden... Read more
The Climate Council’s new extreme weather report, Hitting Home: The compounding costs of climate inaction, finds that 2019-20 was a period of unprecedented fire events, killer heat, powerful... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement (12 December), board members of the Global Climate and Health Alliance have published an... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The landmark Lancet Countdown warned this week of a warming world that was already impacting human health, particularly for the planet’s most vulnerable, provi... Read more
