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  • Net-zero by 2050 is too little too late; some reaction to the Committee on Climate Change Net Zero report

    May 14, 2019
    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

    April 26, 2019
    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 […]


  • Fighting Blood Coal and Blood Mines: In solidarity with communities impacted by Anglo American mining

    April 12, 2019
    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

    April 12, 2019
    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 […]


  • Ask the Royal College of Physicians to stop investing in fossil fuels

    March 28, 2019
    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.


  • Call on East Riding of Yorkshire County Council and East Riding of Yorkshire County Council Pension Fund Committee to go #FossilFree

    March 26, 2019
    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.


  • Air Pollution and Health in Bristol and Beyond: Awareness, Education and Action

    February 4, 2019

    Air Pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK. Exposure to small particles and gases from fossil-fuel derived air pollution contributes to diseases such as cancer, […]


  • Fighting for intergenerational justice – midwives can be climate champions

    January 17, 2019
    Fighting for intergenerational justice – midwives can be climate champions

    Alison Reid urges midwives to get involved in the fossil fuel divestment movement as a means of acting on climate change. Babies being born today face a future marred by climate breakdown if we do not act urgently. Climate action is far more than an environmental concern – it’s a matter of intergenerational justice and…


  • Working for climate justice in 2019

    December 18, 2018
    Working for climate justice in 2019

    Let’s harness the expertise, mandate and social power of the health community to help solve the climate crisis.


  • Call on Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, to clean up Bristol’s unhealthy air

    December 12, 2018
    Call on Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, to clean up Bristol’s unhealthy air

    Medact Bristol is co-ordinating a letter calling on the Mayor of Bristol, Martin Rees, to act to protect our health and take serious action on air pollution


  • Leading UK Public Health body ends investment in fossil fuel industry

    December 10, 2018
    Leading UK Public Health body ends investment in fossil fuel industry

    The UK Faculty of Public Health has ended all investment in gas, oil and coal companies. In doing so it highlights the health impacts of fossil fuel driven climate change. Our Fossil Free Health campaigner, Deirdre Duff, shares the news.


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