Environmental Health Special Interest Group

Committee Details

Convenor: Dr Peter Tait Email: aspetert@bigpond.com

General Committee Member: Liz Hanna (ACT)
General Committee Member: Clive Rosewarne (NT)
General Committee Member: Simon Denniss (WA)
General Committee Member: Marion Carey (Vic)
General Committee Member: Andreas Lapota (Vic)
General Committee Member: Margaret Stebbing (Vic)
General Committee Member: Glenda Verrinder (Vic)

About

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The Environmental Health SIG Forum provides an area for Environmental Health SIG members to post information, respond to and discuss various articles of interest and to interact with fellow members.

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Advocacy

'Do Market Responses help manage Climate Change'

PHAA Media Release -  *18 November 2009
Time for leadership on Australia's population growth
Response from Kelvin Thomson MP, Labor Member for Wills

Articles of Interest

Why does Australia need to develop a sustainable population policy (27 January 2010)

Link to Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou (EcoEquity), Sivan Kartha (Stockholm Environment Institute, A 350 ppm Emergency Pathway , October 29, 2009 http://gdrights.org/2009/10/25/a-350-ppm-emergency-pathway/

The Upper Limit of Human Habitats 350 PPM Co2

Human Impact Report
http://www.phaa.net.au/documents/humanimpactreport.pdf

Hansen Article - Summary of the urgency being directed by the science and of the reasons for keeping temperature change below 2 degrees by keeping CO2 below 350ppm.
http://www.phaa.net.au/documents/2008Hansenarticle.pdf

Richardson K, Steffen W, Schellnhuber HJ, Alcamo J, Barker T, Kammen DM, et al. Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions. Synthesis Report. Copenhagen 2009, 10-12 March. Copenhagen; 2009
http://climatecongress.ku.dk/pdf/synthesisreport/

Richardson K, Steffen W, Schellnhuber HJ, Alcamo J, Barker T, Kammen DM, et al. Synthesis Report from Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions. Copenhagen; 2009 10-12 March
http://climatecongress.ku.dk/pdf/synthesisreport/

Steffen W. Climate Change 2009 - Faster Change and More Serious Risks. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Climate Change; 2009 May
http://www.climatechange.gov.au/science/publications/faster-change-more-risks.html

Steffen W, Burbidge AA, Hughes L, Kitching R, Lindenmayer D, Musgrave W, et al. A strategic assessment of the vulnerability of Australia's biodiversity to climate change. Summary for policy makers 2009. Summary report to the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council Commissioned by the Australian Government. Canberra: CSIRO Publications
http://www.climatechange.gov.au/impacts/pubs/summary-policy-makers.pdf

Steffen W, Burbidge AA, Hughes L, Kitching R, Lindenmayer D, Musgrave W, et al. Australia's biodiversity and cliamte change: a strategic assesment of the vulnerability of Australia's biodiversity to climate change. A report to the Natural Resource Managment Ministerial Council Commissioned by the Australian Government. Canberra: CSIRO Publishing.
http://www.climatechange.gov.au/impacts/pubs/biodiversity-vulnerability-assessment.pdf

Oxfam International. Suffering the Science. Climate change, people, and poverty. Copenhagen; 2009 July. Report No.: Oxfam Briefing Paper 130
http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/bp130-suffering-the-science.pdf

Media Release 7 May 2009  - Crisis? What crisis? Climate Change and Threats to Health

Open letter to the Prime Minister and the Minister for Climate Change and Water
November 2008 - The need for strong emission and reduction targets

National Adaptation Research Plan Consultation Draft Human Health Stakeholder Feedback  17 October 2008 (pdf)

Environmental Threats to the health of children in Australia:The need for a national research agenda (pdf)

Setting a National Research Agenda Children's Environmental Health in Australia (June 2008)

 A Call To Action

Climate Change was identified by the previous Board as one of the top priorities for the national PHAA advocacy focus.

Getup, a national advocacy organisation has identified a new way of bringing this widespread concern to the attention of politicians. They are hoping to redraw the map of Australia to make climate change personal by having people sign on and indicate which electorate they are in. Their signature is then added to a map of Australia with the hope that parliamentarians in each electorate will see the importance of climate change to their constituents... and take action. Their initial target is 250,000 to create a groundswell for change that cannot be dismissed, trivialised or ignored.

Please add your signature and spread the word through your networks. This is a significant public health issue.

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