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The Human Cost of Power

by CAHA
September 11th, 2013

Film Screening

A new short film, ‘The Human Cost of Power’, produced by award winning science journalist, Alexandra de Blas will be previewed at a public forum in Melbourne on Wednesday 18th September 2013.

The film, ‘The Human Cost of Power’ explores the health impacts associated with the massive expansion of coal and unconventional gas in Australia.

The public forum will feature expert speakers including University of Melbourne researcher Dr Jeremy Moss, climate scientist Professor David Karoly, Friends of the Earth campaigner Cam Walker, and Dr Jacinta Morahan from Surf Coast Air Action.

The Human Cost of Power is produced for the Climate and Health Alliance and the Public Health Association of Australia.

The forum is supported by the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Melbourne.

The public forum and film screening will be held from 6.00pm-7.30pm at the Laby Theatre, Room L108, Physics South Building 192, University of Melbourne on Wednesday 18th September 2013.

Eventbrite - The Human Cost of Power

For more information about the film, and CAHA’s work on this topic, check out our Healthy Energy Projects page.

Categories Advocacy, Climate, Coal, Emissions, Energ policy, Energy, Energy policy, Health, Public health, Public policy
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Lives increasingly at risk from ‘angry climate’

by CAHA
March 4th, 2013

Australian’s lives are increasingly at risk from extreme weather being driven by climate change, the Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA) has warned.

CAHA has responded to a new report from the Climate Commission, The Angry Summer, which shows the recent summer was the hottest ever, during which Australia recorded its first ever average maximum of 40.30°C, on 7 January 2013.

Heatwaves pose the most serious threat to health, but lives were also lost in recent bushfires and flooding following extreme rainfall.

The report shows the world is moving into a ‘new climate’, the consequences for which could be devastating for all people everywhere and for the natural systems on which we rely.

Read more here.

Categories Climate, Emissions, Extreme weather, Health, Heat, Heatwaves, Public policy, survival, Sustainability, Well-being
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Stop funding climate change!

by CAHA
June 18th, 2012

The Climate and Health Alliance has joined with organisations and individuals around the world asking Australia state, territory and federal governments and other countries governments to stop subsidising fossil fuels.

Recent estimates from the International Energy Agency suggest that over $775 billion is spent globally each year, subsidising fossil fuels. In 2009, G20 leaders pledged to phase out fossil fuels, but action has been too slow.

It is estimated that fossil fuels subsidies in Australia are worth up to $12 billion each year – that’s $12 billion of Australian taxpayers’ money that could/should be spent on renewable energy every year.

You can sign a petition here to join over one million people calling on world leaders to end taxpayer handouts to the fossil fuel industry.

If want to stop climate change, we need to stop funding the cause! Take action now!

 

Sign a petition here to join over one million people calling on world leaders at the Earth Summit at Rio to end taxpayer handouts to the fossil fuel industry.

As the poster says, if we want to stop climate change, we have to stop funding the source of the problem.

Seems pretty simple, doesn’t it?

Categories Advocacy, Climate, Coal
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