Royal College of Emergency Medicine goes Fossil Free
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has sold all fossil fuel investments formerly held in its £1.3m portfolio. It joins a growing list of global healthcare institution divestments worth £274m. RCEM’s decision was made on the of back ever-growing concerns...Net-zero by 2050 is too little too late; some reaction to the Committee on Climate Change Net Zero report
Our Fossil Free Health campaigner, Deirdre Duff, offers some reaction to the recent Net Zero report by the Committee on Climate Change.
Activism, extractivism and the healthcare community
A profit-driven, extractive economy is severely undermining the life support systems of the planet and exacerbating health inequities around the world. The fossil fuel industry epitomises the worst of what drives this system, and is responsible for impacting the...Submission to the Children’s Future Food Inquiry
Medact produced this submission to the Children’s Future Food Inquiry in early 2019 as part of exploratory work on food justice issues at the intersection of diet, poverty and health. The submission – as with our submission to the Welfare safety net...Fighting Blood Coal and Blood Mines: In solidarity with communities impacted by Anglo American mining
An event to stand in solidarity with communities whose health and lives have been devastated by Anglo American’s mining operations across the Global South. Join us for lunch, discussions and a range of practical actions to hold this company to account.
Divestment in Dorset – the impact of climate change on global health equality
Working or studying in health? Worried about the impact of climate change on global health? Do you want to learn more about how YOU can influence your local government to move away from investment in fossil fuels? (Divestment) Join us to find out about Medact’s...Ask the Royal College of Physicians to stop investing in fossil fuels
Members and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians are co-ordinating this letter to the college President and Treasurer encouraging them to end the college’s investment in the fossil fuel industry.
Medact Dorset
We are forming a group of Dorset medical professionals working against the social, political and environmental conditions which damage health and deepen health inequalities. Climate change is undoubtedly one of these and following Medact’s successes in Fossil...Call on East Riding of Yorkshire County Council and East Riding of Yorkshire County Council Pension Fund Committee to go #FossilFree
Healthcare workers are calling on the East Riding of Yorkshire County Council and the East Riding of Yorkshire County Council Pension Fund Committee to divest from fossil fuels.
Dr Jonathan Grigg interview on Air Pollution
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