• Open letter to the BMA calling for action on fossil fuel divestment

    Open letter to the BMA calling for action on fossil fuel divestment

    As health professionals and supporters of health divestment, we are calling on the British Medical Association to phase out its investments in fossil fuel companies and immediately commit to a fossil free future.


  • Fossil Free Health Liverpool – divestment film and discussion

    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 […]


  • Divest Health

    Divest Health

    Our short film explains how the fossil fuel industry impacts health – directly and via climate change – and tells the story of Fossil Free Health so far. Please watch, […]


  • Do no harm – Divest

    Do no harm – Divest

    “Those who profess to care for the health of people perhaps have the greatest responsibility to act […] We should push our own organisations […] to divest from fossil fuel […]


  • Why the UK healthy community’s investments in fossil fuels are bad for health

    Why the UK healthy community’s investments in fossil fuels are bad for health

    In a new report published today, Medact and other leading health and climate NGOs argue that the UK health community must phase out its investments in the fossil fuel industry, […]


  • Unhealthy Investments – fossil fuel investment and the health community

    Unhealthy Investments – fossil fuel investment and the health community

    In this report Medact and other leading health and climate NGOs argue that the UK health community must phase out its investments in the fossil fuel industry, with air pollution […]


  • Fossil Free Health – Global Divestment Day

     Are you a health professional? Are you concerned about climate change? Are you wondering what you can do about the global health emergency?     On Saturday 14th February thousands […]


  • Fossil Free Health – Planning Meeting

    In April 2014, Medact – together with our partners Healthy Planet UK – launched the ‘Fossil Free Health’ campaign. We are calling on the UK health community to divest from […]