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Election 2020: The Big Climate Hole
Monday, 28 September 2020, 10:10 am | OraTaiao
Health professionals have expressed surprise at the silence around this century’s biggest population health threat in the 2020 general election. “We have found that even some of our major parties have either no plans on what to do about climate change ... More >>
Government Spend Now Must Do ‘triple Duty’ For People, Planet And Prosperity
Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 4:23 pm | OraTaiao
Health professionals are calling for the government’s economic stimulus to do triple duty for people, planet and prosperity. “We can’t return to business as usual. We need a new framework to guide public investment. As the Government invests ... More >>
Health professionals celebrate passing of Zero Carbon Act
Thursday, 7 November 2019, 8:31 pm | OraTaiao
Health professionals are celebrating the historic passing of the Zero Carbon Act. They applaud its purpose to prevent global warming of more than 1.5 degrees and the inclusion of methane targets. More >>
Collective action urged to avert climate crisis
Thursday, 26 September 2019, 1:50 pm | OraTaiao
Members of OraTaiao: NZ Climate and Health Council will join climate events around the country this Friday, 27 September, and are issuing a symbolic medical certificate, as part of the global strikes for climate movement. More >>
Health sector groups ask for Carbon Bill to include health
Thursday, 29 August 2019, 3:06 pm | OraTaiao
This morning at Environment Select Committee hearings, five health sector groups representing more than 55,000 health workers, called for health and fairness to be at the heart of a strengthened Zero Carbon Bill. More >>
NZ’s health sector asks Government for urgent climate action
Thursday, 9 May 2019, 9:21 am | OraTaiao
Health workers delivered a strong message to the Coalition Government at the National Forum on Sustainable Healthcare today. They are asking for urgent policy to ensure that District Health Boards (DHBs) and the wider health sector are held accountable ... More >>
Zero Carbon Bill is critical but too little too late
Wednesday, 8 May 2019, 4:47 pm | OraTaiao
Zero Carbon Bill is critical legislation for health, but targets are too little, too late More >>
Health professionals support students in their strike
Friday, 15 March 2019, 5:57 pm | OraTaiao
Health professionals are pledging their support for school students around New Zealand who will be striking this Friday to call for meaningful action on climate change. More >>
Health professionals support students in their strike
Wednesday, 13 March 2019, 4:17 pm | OraTaiao
Health professionals are pledging their support for school students around New Zealand who will be striking this Friday to call for meaningful action on climate change. More >>
Urgent action needed to stop global temperatures rising
Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 9:58 am | OraTaiao
Health professionals are intensifying calls for urgent emissions reduction in response to a report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). More >>
Urgent action needed to stop global temperatures rising
Monday, 8 October 2018, 7:17 pm | OraTaiao
Health professionals are intensifying calls for urgent emissions reduction in response to a report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). More >>
Health risks of “Hothouse Earth” a disaster
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 5:18 pm | OraTaiao
A report released this week on the dangers of heading towards “Hothouse Earth” makes it clear that climate change is now a public health emergency. More >>
UN report has serious implications for NZ’s Zero Carbon Bill
Friday, 29 June 2018, 10:55 am | OraTaiao
The latest reported draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C shows growing certainty that 2°C of warming is a dangerous step for humanity, and for the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders. ... More >>
Healthy climate is an essential prescription for New Zealand
Thursday, 26 October 2017, 1:23 pm | OraTaiao
Health professionals say a report released today by the Royal Society of New Zealand should be a wake-up call about the wide-ranging health impacts of climate change. More >>
Health professionals back call for a New Zealand Climate Act
Thursday, 30 June 2016, 3:49 pm | OraTaiao
Health professionals support the call for a legal framework that accelerates New Zealand’s action to address climate change. More >>
Doctors, nurses and public health professionals call on G7
Wednesday, 18 May 2016, 5:00 pm | OraTaiao
More than 300,000 health professionals from 30 countries are asking G7 nations to speed up the move away from coal, in the interests of health and climate protection. More >>
Doctor speaking to Studholme hearing says the law is an ass
Monday, 11 April 2016, 11:36 am | OraTaiao
Dr Alex Macmillan, co-leader of OraTaiao: NZ Climate & Health Council, and a public health physician specialising in environmental health, gave evidence to the Studholme milk drying plant expansion hearing in Waimate today. She called on ECan ... More >>
Britain, White House spotlight climate change health impacts
Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 11:12 am | OraTaiao
Leading British health institutions and the Obama administration in the U.S have both brought attention to the health impacts of climate change in this last week. More >>
Cross-party climate action is essential health investment
Thursday, 3 September 2015, 3:50 pm | OraTaiao
“New Zealand is missing out on too many health opportunities by leaving real climate planning to just a couple of political parties” says Dr Alex Macmillan, co-convenor of OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate and Health Council. More >>
Dutch court ruling on climate change
Thursday, 25 June 2015, 4:27 pm | OraTaiao
Health professionals say Dutch court ruling on climate change ‘duty of care’ relevant to New Zealand In a world first, the Dutch court has ordered the state to reduce its climate-changing emissions by 25 percent (on 1990 levels) in the next ... More >>