Climate change is the central public health issue in Victoria and across the globe. It is both the single greatest health threat and opportunity of the 21st century.
cohealth, a not-for-profit community health organisation, commissioned HIP V. HYPE to undertake a review of the current evidence and best practice for climate action in community health to identify opportunities to better protect those in our community who need it most.
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Strategy
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Context
HIP V. HYPE identified a range of opportunities for cohealth to lead climate action in the community health sector in Victoria (and beyond) and work towards a comprehensive response to climate change, reducing its own operational impacts, while also supporting better health and wellbeing outcomes for the community.
- Educate staff and service delivery partners about the impacts of a changing climate.
- Support the local community, particularly those most at risk, to understand the impacts of a changing climate, help build their climate resilience and implement effective mitigation strategies.
- Advocate for federal, state and local government policy and programs that equitably address climate change impacts.
- Lead by example and reduce cohealth's operational greenhouse gas emissions.