The Chancellor has a chance to protect children’s lungs in his budget this month. Let’s make sure it happens.
We’ve got to get diesel cars off our roads to protect everyone’s health.
BHP Billiton AGM solidarity demonstration
On Thursday 19 October, we joined London mining network, War on Want, Colombia Solidarity Campaign and People & Planet, for a demonstration against BHP’s neocolonial extractivism. We stood in solidarity with frontline communities as representatives from...Medical doctors and scientists call on the British government to join the nuclear ban treaty
Medical doctors and scientists, including Medact’s director David McCoy, write a letter calling on the British government to immediately begin the process of joining the international treaty demanding the ban of nuclear weapons. Read the letter here. Join...The City of Hiroshima – Peace Declaration 2017
Medact has received a letter from the Mayor of the City of Hiroshima, along with a copy of their Peace Declaration. The Medact Hiroshima Appeal 2017 has just recently launched. It will enable us to continue and grow our work for peace. We join the City of Hiroshima...Still failing to tackle air pollution
An editorial by Medact and Doctors Against Diesel discussing the government’s Air Quality plan, how it does little to ease the crisis in UK towns and cities, and the need to improve public transport, decongest our towns and cities, and encourage more walking and...Members are calling on the British Psychological Society to end its investments in companies in the fossil fuel industry
November 2018 update: The British Psychological Society has now committed to end its investment in fossil fuels! A big thank you to all who supported the Open Letter below and campaigned to make this happen. You can read about their divestment decision here. Are you a...Comment on the government’s plan to tackle air pollution published today
Excellent news about a ban on petrol and diesel cars, but it needs to be expedited Commenting on the government plan to tackle air pollution published today, Professor Jonathan Grigg said: “Although we support the government’s direction of travel to move away from...Statement from Doctors Against Diesel about the Client Earth hearing today
There is overwhelming evidence that exposure to small particles and gases from fossil-fuel derived air pollution has major adverse consequences on health. Published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, the world’s largest study of air pollution shows...Response from Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to our reply to Theresa May’s letter re: Government action on diesel
A response has been received from the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Michael Gove, to the Doctors against Diesel response to Prime Minister Theresa May’s Letter in March. Doctors against Diesel’s response included the...Consultation on the Central London ULEZ – Medact Response
Medact is a London-based public health charity that works on environmental health, amongst other things. Medact is the lead organiser of the Doctors Against Diesel campaign which comprises a wide range of academics and clinicians who are concerned about the...Doctors Against Diesel website launched
We launched our new campaign website for National Clean Air Day. Please take a look – and let us know what you think. You can also follow Doctors Against Diesel on Facebook and...Doctors Against Diesel respond to the government’s draft Air Quality Plan
Our response to the government’s consultation on its draft of a UK Air Quality Plan