Climate and Health Alliance

$10,000 | May 2020

What do Climate and Health Alliance do?

CAHA are Australia’s peak body on climate change and health, with 45 health group members, including the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Public Health Association of Australia and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation. 

Why is this work important?

The past summer has awoken a new cohort of health organisations and professionals who are grappling with climate impacts on their work and looking for how they can act on climate to protect public health.

In February, the Climate and Health Alliance launched our Climate Change is a Health Emergency campaign, aiming to reach out to and support this new cohort of health organisations and professionals to take strategic action on climate. Now, we need to scale up.

How is Groundswell supporting this work?

In February, the Climate and Health Alliance launched our Climate Change is a Health Emergency campaign, aiming to reach out to and support this new cohort of health organisations and professionals to take strategic action on climate.

Funding from Groundswell helped support CAHA engage the trusted voices of health professionals to communicate the need for urgent climate action to protect health through mainstream and social media and develop a strong advocacy coalition of 50+ health organisations and secured policy commitments on climate change. 

Groundswell support will help CAHA take hold of this increased interest in health, channel it towards action on the climate crisis, and ultimately secure climate action to protect our health.