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ABC Big Ideas panel - Climate Change and Health
Climate change poses a serious risk to public health: more bushfires, heat related deaths and hospitalisations, diminished safe drinking water, reduced crop production, and a growth in vector, and water borne diseases.
Recorded at The Climate and Health Crisis sympoisum hosted by RegNet and ANU’s Climate Change Institute earlier this year, Paul Barclay speaks to an expert panel about the relationship between climate change and public health, and how best to deal with threats posed by a hotter planet.
Listen to the podcast via ABC Radio National.
Panel members:
Fiona Armstrong, Climate and Health Alliance
Howard Bamsey, Chair, Global Water Partnership and Honorary Professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)
Prof Sharon Friel, Director, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)
Prof Mark Howden, Director, ANU Climate Change Institute and Vice Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Anna Rose, Strategic Projects Director, Farmers for Climate Action
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