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DEA PowerPoint, The Science & Health Impacts of Climate Change

DEA with Professor Garnaut

Doctors for the Environment Australia Management Committee met with Professor Ross Garnaut author of the Garnaut Climate Change Review in Adelaide, November 5 2009.
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Things To Do

How to make your household and business carbon neutral
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GreenClinics

This initiative by ACF and DEA assists doctors and practice managers to identify simple changes they can make in their clinics to save energy and water, reduce waste, and help their patients and communities to live more sustainable and healthy lives. download...

Public Transport is a Climate Change and Health Issue

To read DEA's "A Public Transport and Green City Manifesto for the Federal Election" Click Here and to read "Moving Australians Sustainably, transport policy in the national interest" courtesy of the Public Transport Users Association. Click Here

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Late lessons from early warnings:The precautionary principle 1896-2000

Submitted by David Shearman on Wed, 19/05/2004 - 21:57. Reports on Health and the Environment

Environmental Issue report No 22, European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen, 2001.

This publication describes the use, non use, and possible misuse of the precautionary principle. It derives a number of criteria, or lessons, for the future application of the precautionary principle that can help minimise risks and maximise benefits and innovation. It is designed to improve awareness, understanding and "framing" of the issues raised by the precautionary principle, and to help improve its contribution to "sound and effective" policy-making. The report contains case studies on some major hazards (asbestos, benzene, acid rain, Great Lakes pollution, antibiotics in animal feed, BSE, CFCs, PCBs, sulphur dioxide, fisheries, medical radiation, etc.) for which there is information on the science about the health/environment impacts, and the costs/benefits.

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