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National Pollutant Inventory data released

  New data highlights health and climate concerns as a result of toxic pollutants from gas and coal industries. CAHA Executive Director Fiona Armstrong comments on the data released by the National Pollutant Inventory in an article by Thom Mitchell for New Matilda: "What this data shows is that toxic pollutants that harm health are on the rise from both the coal and gas industries, with huge increases in particulate and chemical pollution". Read more here.
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Our Climate is Our Health Seminar

                    On the 19th of November, 2015 the 'Our Climate is Our Health' seminar in Melbourne brought together CAHA members and broader healthcare sector stakeholders to learn from one another on advocating for action on climate change, to strengthen relationships and build understanding between health and environment groups, and to work towards developing a collaborative national strategy on climate change and health “ with the goal of getting policy outcomes within...
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Greening the Healthcare Sector Think Tank Report

Report from Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA) and Australian Healthcare and Hospitals (AHHA) Greening the Healthcare Sector Think Tank. The fourth annual Greening the Healthcare Sector Think Tank was held on 20th November 2015 at Western Health in Footscray, Melbourne. Western Health is the home of Sustainability Officer Cath O'Shea and Dr Forbes McGain who have contributed to the health service's leadership in implementing a comprehensive range of sustainability initiatives across several sites. Western Health is a member of the...
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Publications in 2014

Joint Statement on Coal and Health The Climate and Health Alliance and the Climate Council released a Joint Statement on Coal and Health in response to the Inquiry report from Hazelwood coal mine fire in Victoria. The Joint Statement calls for: health risks to be considered in all energy policy and investment decisions; independent air, water and soil quality monitoring at and around every coal mine and power station in Australia; and funding for research into health, social and environmental...
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Health events 2015

Health Events 2015 7   Health Events 2015.7 COP 21 Health Events 2015
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Launch of landmark new research report

The Lancet Commission on Health and Climate brings together more than 60 international experts as a new commission to respond to climate change, with the resulting research to be released at 00.01am GMT (9.00am AEST) on Tuesday 23rd June 2015. This report updates and builds on the groundbreaking UCL-Lancet Commission published in 2009 when climate change was first described as the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century". The 2015 Commission understands climate change as a ˜health emergency'....
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Climate change: a great threat to health, but not as generally conceived

by Professor Colin Butler via Croakey Prior to the 2009 Copenhagen climate change conference the Lancet published a 41 page article called "Managing the health effects of climate change". The text postulated that "climate change is potentially the biggest global health threat in the 21st century" but the executive summary was unambiguous: "Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century". Later this month, in the lead up to the Paris climate change summit, the Lancet is...
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Leading climate and health academic faces court after coal protest

  MEDIA ALERT Wednesday 11 March: Professor Colin Butler, an internationally-respected expert on climate change and health (and a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)), will face court in Sydney tomorrow (Thursday 12 March) following his arrest for protesting coal exports from the Whitehaven Maules Creek coal mine in northern NSW. Professor Colin Butler is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Canberra and a Visiting Fellow at the National Centre of Epidemiology & Population...
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COP 20 Diary: Health Saturday

Posted by Rosalind Simpson for Health Care Without Harm, December 8th, 2014 Health Care Without Harm Europe's Climate Policy and Membership Officer Kornelia Bagi - in Lima, Peru Health Saturday at COP 20 The third Global Climate and Health Summit took place on Saturday 6 December in downtown Lima as a side event to the UNFCCC negotiations. The event organised by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (a global coalition working to tackle climate change and to protect and promote...
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Health leaders call for concerted action on climate change at Lima Climate and Health Summit

Climate and Health Summit: Investing in Health December 6th 2014 | Swissotel, Lima, Peru The Summit took place alongside COP-20 in central Lima - an occasion to showcase success stories, and coordinate action across all sectors to protect human health from the impacts of climate change. A line-up of highly engaging speakers, including experts from the World Bank, World Health Organization, and local public health groups at the front line of climate program implementation. For more information and a report...
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