Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that the World Health Organization has acknowledged climate change to be the greatest threat to health this century;

(b) recognises that acting on climate change is the greatest opportunity to improve health;

(c) also recognises the Australian Government, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement, has an obligation to consider health in its climate change response;

(d) applauds the growing calls from the health sector to act on climate to protect our health, including the 30 health leaders in Parliament today meeting with representatives to discuss climate change and health; and

(e) calls on the Government to urgently develop a 'National Strategy on Climate Change, Health and Well-being', which is supported by more than 50 health, social welfare and conservation groups.