Climate and Health Alliance
  • Home
  • About
    • Members
    • Governance
    • Values
    • Contact us
    • Staff
  • Join
  • News
  • Campaigns
    • National Strategy for Climate, Health and Well-being
    • Healthcare Climate Challenge
    • Healthy Energy Initiative
    • Clearing the Air
    • Climate Health Emergency
  • Projects
    • Global Green and Healthy Hospitals
    • Healthy, Regenerative and Just: Our new policy agenda
    • Real, Urgent and Now: Communicating the health impacts of climate change
    • Health and Wellbeing Climate Adaptation Plan (H-CAP)
    • Coal and Health in the Hunter
    • The Human Cost of Power
    • Rewrite the Future
  • resources
    • Newsletters
    • Annual Reports
    • Briefing Papers
    • Position Statements
    • Submissions
    • CAHA Publications
    • External Reports
    • Research Links
  • Events
  • Donate
Climate and Health Alliance
  • Home
  • About
    • Members
    • Governance
    • Values
    • Contact us
    • Staff
  • Join
  • News
  • Campaigns
    • National Strategy for Climate, Health and Well-being
    • Healthcare Climate Challenge
    • Healthy Energy Initiative
    • Clearing the Air
    • Climate Health Emergency
  • Projects
    • Global Green and Healthy Hospitals
    • Healthy, Regenerative and Just: Our new policy agenda
    • Real, Urgent and Now: Communicating the health impacts of climate change
    • Health and Wellbeing Climate Adaptation Plan (H-CAP)
    • Coal and Health in the Hunter
    • The Human Cost of Power
    • Rewrite the Future
  • resources
    • Newsletters
    • Annual Reports
    • Briefing Papers
    • Position Statements
    • Submissions
    • CAHA Publications
    • External Reports
    • Research Links
  • Events
  • Donate

Pages tagged "Carbon"

Categories

adani
advocacy
air pollution
Allied health
Australian Government
Australia
Awards
awareness
AYCC
Behaviour change
benefits
Business as Urgent
caha-website-signup
caha_website_join
CAHA
Canberra
carbon neutral
carbon
category
children
Christiana Figueres
civil society
clean energy
climate change
Climate_Health_Champion
climate
coal seam gas
coal
community action
community
COP17
COP21
costs
csg
democracy
disease
divestment
Durban
dust
ecohealth
ecology
education
election
emergency
emissions
Energ policy
Energy policy
energy
environment
Ethics
events
extreme events
Extreme weather
Featured Campaign
Featured Projects
Featured Resources
federal election 2019
finance
forum
fossil fuels
fossil fuel
Framework
funding
fundraising
future
g7 nations
gas
General
GGHH
global green
global
governance
government
green conferences
green healthcare
Greenhouse gases
green
harm
Hazelwood
Health benefits
health damages
Health policy
Health professionals
Health promotion
healthcare
healthy
health
heatwaves
Heatwave
heat
Hospitals
impacts
individual action
jobs
Lancet
low carbon
Medical
Midwives
misinformation
Mitigate
National Strategy on Climate Health Well-being
negotiations
Nurses
Nursing
offsets
opinion
opportunities
page_show_feedback_logo_upload
paralysis
Paris
Particles
Petition: Environment Laws
philanthropy
policy
politicians
politics
pollution
population health
power
prevention
protection
Psychology
Public health
Public policy
Publications
renewable
report
research
Resources
respect
Rio+20
risks
risk
rural
science
scorecard
sector
side events
social cost of carbon
Social policy
social
solar
solastalgia
subsidies
summer
survival
sustainability
sustainable healthcare
Sustainable
sustainablity
Sydney
symposium2018
TCP
Training
transformation
transition
UCC
Uncategorized
unconventional gas
UNFCCC
volunteer
Waste
water
well-being
wellbeing
Wellness
wind
women
Workplace action
workshop

The historic Paris Agreement: 2015

Please see here for the historic Paris Agreement which recognises the first time the desirability of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees. Below a comment provided to media on behalf of CAHA and further below some comments from civil society leaders from The Guardian, and others from the Australian civil society COP network. (Thanks to James Lorenz, Prue Pickering and Sam Webb). "The Paris Agreement is a positive response to the grave threats we face from our fossil fuelled societies and...
Read more Share

The health implications of energy choices in Australia

CAHA Executive Director Fiona Armstrong was invited to speak at this high level health event held in Paris during COP21 - 'Health Professionals in Action on Healthy Energy and Climate' organised by Health and Environment Alliance Europe (HEAL) held at Conseil National de l'Ordre de Medecins (CNOM) on 4th December 2015. A transcript of her presentation appears below: Quote: "The health implications of energy policy decisions should be core business for public health professionals. Governments and policymakers are being influenced...
Read more Share

The world in which I want to grow old is within reach: Grace Fitzgerald at the Melbourne Peoples Climate March

  Grace Fitzgerald gave this incredible speech at the Melbourne People's Climate March: "Two weeks ago, meteorologists announced that in 2015, global warming would for the first time pass one degree above pre-industrial levels. For a young person who has grown up in the knowledge that my future is inextricable from the climate around me, that landmark is terrifying. From a young age, I have ben told that two degrees of global warming presents a boundary beyond which the safety...
Read more Share

Powerful alliances pushing for action on climate change, locally and globally

by Mark Hayes via Croakey The threat to human health from climate change is so great that it could undermine many of the gains in development and global health of the last fifty years. And yet according to the report, actions to tackle climate change could be the greatest opportunity to improve global health. The initial 2009 Lancet report titled, Managing the health effects of climate change, labelled climate change as "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century"....
Read more Share

Greening the Healthcare Sector Think Tank 14th Oct 2014

Hosted by Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) and Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA) in partnership with Global Green and Healthy Hospitals   Event Title: ˜The Health Sector as a Leader in Low Carbon Transformation' When: Tuesday 14th October 2014 Where: Mater Hospital, South Brisbane Featuring case studies and experts on the following themes: Building healthy and sustainable healthcare infrastructure Waste not “ the transformation of disposal in healthcare Engaging others “ making sustainability everyone's business Building a national and global...
Read more Share
  • Home
  • About
    • Members
    • Governance
    • Values
    • Contact us
    • Staff
  • Join
  • News
  • Campaigns
    • National Strategy for Climate, Health and Well-being
    • Healthcare Climate Challenge
    • Healthy Energy Initiative
    • Clearing the Air
    • Climate Health Emergency
  • Projects
    • Global Green and Healthy Hospitals
    • Healthy, Regenerative and Just: Our new policy agenda
    • Real, Urgent and Now: Communicating the health impacts of climate change
    • Health and Wellbeing Climate Adaptation Plan (H-CAP)
    • Coal and Health in the Hunter
    • The Human Cost of Power
    • Rewrite the Future
  • resources
    • Newsletters
    • Annual Reports
    • Briefing Papers
    • Position Statements
    • Submissions
    • CAHA Publications
    • External Reports
    • Research Links
  • Events
  • Donate

We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People as the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work and acknowledge that sovereignty of the land we call Australia has never been ceded. We commit to listening to and learning from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about how we can better reflect Indigenous ways of being and knowing in our work.


Sign in with Facebook, Twitter or email. Created with NationBuilder