The College acknowledges the substantive evidence to suggest that the impacts of climate change are creating a global health emergency and that these effects are being felt especially by rural and remote communities in Australia and across the world.
A global health emergency calls for an emergency response, and immediate and sustained action is required to minimise the impact of climate change. Australia needs to take much greater steps to mitigate and adapt to bring climate change under control to save lives and protect health.
ACRRM’s Climate and Health Position Statement calls on government at all levels to apply a “rural-proofing lens” to climate change policy to ensure the health of our population living in rural and remote Australia.
ACRRM will:
The below resources give insight into policy in climate change and how it can effect rural and remote medicine.
Doctors for the Environment Australia have produced some resources for doctors on climate and health.