What is the council?
The Council is a not-for-profit international organisation. Our aim is to mobilise health professionals across the world to take action to limit climate change, a serious threat to human health. Any health professional and any health or health care organisation can become a member. You can view our constitution, and the board members.
What does the Council do?
To achieve its aim, the Council’s members take action in five main ways. We
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Inform about issues related to climate change and global health
Affirm our beliefs on a personal and professional level
Advocate a global framework for action
Innovate by developing and supporting new solutions
Disseminate key information to those in a position to help
Join us by: Signing up to the Declaration, and contributing to the five actions.
TEN PRACTICAL ACTIONS FOR DOCTORS
The Climate and Health Council and the Health and Sustainability Network have prepared a short paper proposing Ten Practical Actions for Doctors to Combat Climate Change, which has been submitted to the British Medical Journal.
The Ten Practical Actions reflect the Climate and Health Council framework: Inform, Affirm, Advocate, Innovate and Disseminate. The primary focus is on action by doctors as health professionals, as well as citizens. The estimates therefore concern mainly action in the workplace (hospital or general practice). We have deliberately suggested actions that require little or no money.
Click here to read a summary of the proposed actions, as well as a first attempt at calculating the potential tonnes of carbon that might be saved from the ‘affirmative’ group of actions.