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The 2023 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: sustainability needed in Australia's health care sector
MJA–Lancet
2024
The MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change in Australia examines five broad domains: health hazards, exposures and impacts; adaptation, planning and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co‐benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement. In this, the sixth report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown, we track progress on an extensive suite of indicators across these five domains, accessing and presenting the latest data and further refining and developing our analyses.
COP29 Special Report on Climate Change and Health
World Health Organization
2024
Developed by WHO in collaboration with over 100 organisations and 300 experts, the COP29 special report on climate change and health identifies critical policies across three integrated dimensions – people, place and planet. The report outlines key actions aiming to protect all people, particularly the estimated 3.6 billion people who live in areas which are most susceptible to climate change.
Implementing a Health in All Policies Approach in Australia
University of Melbourne
2024
Melbourne Climate Futures have published a discussion paper “Implementing a Health in All Policies Approach in Australia”. In this paper, authors provide policymakers with a background to this approach and recommendations for how we can remove barriers to its application
A Threat to Progress: Confronting the effects of climate change on child health and well-being
UNICEF, Karolinska Institutet
2024
While the evidence on the impact of climate change on children’s health and well-being is growing, research often focuses on the effects of individual hazards. This report aims to provide a comprehensive ‘stocktake’ of the impacts of climate change on children across six major hazards that impact their health and well-being: extreme heat, droughts, wildfires, floods and storms, air pollution and ecosystem changes.
Real, Urgent & Now Communicating the Health Impacts of Climate Change
The Climate and Health Alliance
2021
This Communication Guide is intended to help health professionals to speak with confidence about climate change and health, promote actions which reduce emissions and improve health, and advocate for climate action.
Global road map for health care decarbonization
Healthcare Without Harm
2021
This review provides background information, context, and relevant evidence to support an understanding of the safety and quality risks facing the Australian healthcare sector.
2023 Healthy NDC Scorecard
Global Climate and Health Alliance
2023
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are country commitments to deliver the goal of the Paris Agreement, limiting global temperature rise to well below 2C, and preferably to 1.5C. The 2023 edition of the Healthy NDC Scorecard assesses the consideration of health in the 58 NDCs submitted between 1st October 2021 and 23rd September 2022
