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November 3, 2021

Health care contributes 7% to Australia’s carbon emissions – but health is missing from our COP26 plan

Fiona Armstrong, La Trobe University

The Australian government may have announced its net zero plan, but it has yet to factor in the health sector or the health of its people.

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March 30, 2020

Coronavirus is a wake‑up call: our war with the environment is leading to pandemics

Fiona Armstrong, La Trobe University; Ro McFarlane, University of Canberra, and Tony Capon, Monash University

COVID-19 is the latest new infectious disease arising from our collision with nature.

Successive governments have ignored the health risks of climate change. Reuters/Daniel Munoz

July 20, 2016

Climate policy needs a new lens: health and well‑being

Fiona Armstrong, La Trobe University and Peter C. Doherty, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity

As the new Australian parliament takes the reins, health groups are moving to ensure the new health minister addresses a major health threat in this term of government: climate change.

Cutting emissions will limit health damages and bring about important health improvements. Pedro Ribeiro Simões/Flickr

June 23, 2015

Climate mitigation – the greatest public health opportunity of our time

Fiona Armstrong, La Trobe University

Tackling climate change is the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century, a team of 60 international experts today declared in a special report for the medical journal The Lancet.

Believing climate change isn’t happening won’t make it go away. Image from www.shutterstock.com

April 21, 2013

Your MP doesn’t ‘believe’ in climate change? Ask the tough questions

Brad Farrant, The University of Western Australia; Fiona Armstrong, La Trobe University; Karen Kiang, The University of Melbourne, and Mark G Edwards, The University of Western Australia

As we head into an election, you’d be justified in asking what your local member is basing their climate change decisions on. If your MP says “I don’t support policies to prevent dangerous climate change…

Children suffer around 90% of the disease burden from climate change. Flickr/SeemaKK

October 8, 2012

Future under threat: climate change and children’s health

Brad Farrant, The University of Western Australia; Fiona Armstrong, La Trobe University, and Glenn Albrecht, Murdoch University

Climate change has been widely recognised by leading public health organisations and prestigious peer reviewed journals as the the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. A recently released…

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