The Department of Health and Aged Care has recently published the National Health and Climate Strategy.
The Strategy's vision will be achieved through the pursuit of four objectives:
OBJECTIVE 1
Health System Resilience
Build a climate-resilient health system and enhance its capacity to protect health and wellbeing from the impacts of climate change.
The Strategy will inform and guide action by the health system to protect and promote population health while adapting to the impacts of climate change.
OBJECTIVE 2
Health System Decarbonisation
Build a sustainable, high quality, net zero health system.
The Strategy will guide the development of a plan to decarbonise the Australian health system, informed by a comprehensive assessment of the emissions footprint of the Australian health system and existing state and territory strategies and plans.
OBJECTIVE 3
International Collaboration
Collaborate internationally to build sustainable, climate-resilient health
systems and communities.
The Strategy will identify opportunities for knowledge sharing and the development of international standards as well as highlight the ways Australia can support its neighbours to protect and promote health in their climate change responses.
OBJECTIVE 4
Health In All Policies
Support healthy, climate-resilient and sustainable communities through
whole-of-government action which recognises the relationship between
health and climate outcomes.
The Strategy adopts a Health in All Policies approach, promoting the health co-benefits of emissions reductions across society and adaptation action beyond the health system to protect health and wellbeing from climate change.