The Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s decision to divest from fossil fuels is a welcome step, say Zoe Steley and Sandy Robertson […]
Climate change
Adam Briggs: Eating less red meat—a win for health and a win for the planet
The benefits of reduced meat consumption would be twofold, says Adam Briggs […]
Alex Armitage: Hunger strike for climate justice
Cliff Kendall worked on the frontline of the 2010 HIV epidemic and has seen how many lives can be lost to government inaction, which is why he is now going […]
John Hyslop: Doctors declare climate emergency
Last week at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting I proposed that the BMA declare a climate emergency and campaign for carbon neutrality by 2030. The motion was passed overwhelmingly into […]
The NHS must behave as an environmental anchor to mitigate the impacts of climate change
The NHS is one of the UK”s biggest contributors to climate change, and top down reform is too slow, but clinical staff can kick start change, say Nada Al-Hadithy and […]
The healthcare community needs to champion healthy and sustainable urban living spaces
We need to look beyond disease and individual sector silos and take into account the potential of the social and built environment to both prevent disease, and also contribute to […]
Alex Armitage: We must act now to prevent air pollution deaths in the UK
Last week I received an email from Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Foundation Trust providing notification of travel disruption on Friday 14th June: “Our security lead… has been notified by the […]
Let’s make sure that doctors are heard to speak out on climate change
School children have taken to the street again today to protest against climate change. Hundreds of thousands of young people are estimated to have taken part in today’s school climate […]
Richard Smith: Everybody should read The Uninhabitable Earth
Everybody reading The Uninhabitable Earth could literally (the correct use of a usually misused word) save the planet, says Richard Smith The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells is the only […]
Kate Bernard: Why medical students are joining the rebellion on climate change
On 12 April 2019 Alex Armitage wrote a powerful piece for BMJ Opinion on “Extinction Rebellion”, the environmental activist group which has been hitting our headlines for the past few weeks. […]