Climate Change

Reports on Climate Change

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Feeling under the weather?

Martin Williams has provided an excellent poster, “Feeling under the weather?”. The poster highlights climate change problems, with specific reference to Victoria, and questions the viability of emission permit trading over a carbon tax, as well as the CO₂ reduction levels needed. Martin also makes a wry, and accurate, observation on river management in Australia. Click here to download the poster PDF.

Climate Change Blues and Greens

by David Shearman – Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA Australia)Evidence is accumulating that the public is increasingly disinterested in climate change. What is this evidence, what are the reasons for its occurrence and how does it affect our mission to get government to act? More information click here

Climate Change and Health Poster

Doctors for the Environment Australia. The information in this poster is endorsed by the AMA. More information click here

Food, Population Policy and Climate Change

Submitted by David Shearman – Doctors for the Environment, AustraliaWalking to the shops instead of driving would seem to be one way that each of us can reduce our greenhouse emissions. Unfortunately, your emissions may be less if you take the car. If you take your family in the car as well then greenhouse will benefit even more. This seems counterintuitive.  The reason is that if you eat an average Australian diet with meat and dairy, the calories you use walking to the shops will probably create more greenhouse emissions than driving. If you grow your own food, don’t use fertilizer, collect your rainwater and are mainly vegetarian then definitely walk to the shops.  More information click here

Climate change; ethics and human rights

Submitted by David Shearman – Doctors for the Environment, AustraliaThe recent Poznan meeting on climate change produced thousands of statements but little progress. In sifting through the deluge of words, one fundamental issue emerges, the conflicting views of developing and developed nations. This has human rights and ethical connotations. To

illustrate the issue I will discuss statements from Evo Morales, President of the Republic of Bolivia, from representatives of the Pacific countries and from a US ethicist representing Western thought.  More information click here

Climate Change Health Check 2020

Dr Graeme HortonProfessor Tony McMichaelDoctors for the Environment, AustraliaApril 2008. A report prepared for the Climate Institute of Australia in relation to World Health Day on April 7, 2008 for which the World Health Organisation’s theme is ‘Protecting Health from Climate Change’. More information click here

Good News for Research into the Health Impacts of Climate Change

Media ReleaseSenator the Hon Penny Wong, Minister for Climate Change and Water; The Hon Nicola Roxon MP, Minister for Health and Ageing; Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.

27 January 2008

More information click here ISDE position paper on climate Change and Human Health

Declaration on Climate Change and human Health, Budapest 1997

Analysis: Global environmental change and health: impacts, inequalities, and the health sector

A J McMichael, professor1, S Friel, fellow1, A Nyong, director2, C Corvalan, coordinator3 1 National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2 Centre for Environmental Resources and Hazards Research, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Jos, Nigeria, 3 Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.Human pressures on the environment are damaging the world’s biophysical and ecological systems. A J McMichael and colleagues discuss the resulting unequal effects on health and set out strategies to help prevent and lessen the harm. BMJ  2008;336:191-194 (26 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.39392.473727.AD. More Information