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  • H4GND x Uplift Climate Messaging Workshop

    November 30, 2023
    H4GND x Uplift Climate Messaging Workshop

    Join us for an exciting opportunity to spend a day with other climate justice campaigners in a collaborative messaging workshop to bring a health framework to issues related to oil & gas expansion, fuel poverty, and more!


  • The People’s Health Hearing: Health Justice means Climate Justice

    October 7, 2021
    The People’s Health Hearing: Health Justice means Climate Justice

    At the COP 26 People’s Summit for Climate Justice, 7 November 2021


  • 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…


  • 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.


  • British Psychological Society divests from gas, oil and coal

    November 13, 2018
    British Psychological Society divests from gas, oil and coal

    The British Psychological Society is divesting from fossil fuels! It joins a growing number of health organisations that are cutting ties with gas, oil and coal. Dr Deirdre Duff reports on their divestment decision.


  • Royal College of General Practitioners divests from fossil fuels!

    July 30, 2018
    Royal College of General Practitioners divests from fossil fuels!

    The Royal College of General Practitioners is divesting from all fossil fuels. Dr Deirdre Duff shares this exciting news.


  • Medical Students call on the British Medical Association to sell fossil fuel investments

    April 26, 2017
    Medical Students call on the British Medical Association to sell fossil fuel investments

    Health students – sign the letter to the BMA[/button] It is nearly three years since members of the British Medical Association (BMA) first called for fossil fuel divestment – and […]


  • Fossil Free Health Liverpool – divestment film and discussion

    April 13, 2017
    Fossil Free Health Liverpool – divestment film and discussion

    This is the last in a series of health focused events during Global Divestment Mobilisation week.  Please join us at the HUS bar, Liverpool where organisers of fossil free health, the […]


  • Taking the Pulse of Hospital Food

    March 23, 2017
    Taking the Pulse of Hospital Food

    Happy NHS Sustainability Day!  A national day of action across the health sector to highlight the important role of sustainability in health service delivery. Hospital environments that promote food which […]


  • How do UK dietary guidelines compare for sustainability?

    February 14, 2017
    How do UK dietary guidelines compare for sustainability?

    UK dietary guidelines are designed to promote healthy eating by providing accessible advice to the public. But what we eat doesn’t only impact on our individual health, it also has […]


  • World Medical Association Calls on Health Sector to Divest – Will you ask your Royal College?

    November 7, 2016
    World Medical Association Calls on Health Sector to Divest – Will you ask your Royal College?

    On 22nd October the World Medical Association passed a resolution calling on their members and health organisations worldwide to divest from fossil fuels, and reinvest in organisations upholding environmental principles. […]


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