Irish Doctors for the Environment
@IrishDocsEnv
An organisation of medical professionals in Ireland focused on promoting good health through care of the environment.
Registered charity number: 20205893.
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http://www.IDE.ie 27-11-2018 19:00:57
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Today is Ireland's Overshoot Day - the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.
If everyone lived like we do in Ireland, we would need three planets to sustain us.
📊 by Footprint Network
🙌 Fantastic to see that the HSE Ireland have signed up with HCWH Europe!
This is a crucial step if we are serious about making the Irish healthcare service sustainable.
#SustainableHealthcare
shar.es/agsyir
'Killarney’s dying rainforest: A towering national disgrace for more than 50 years.'
My piece for the Irish Examiner
(Images left: Killarney NP, right: my place in Beara.)
irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/outd…
#IDEJournalClub
🚵 Seeing past our own biases to achieve a fast and fair transition to a healthier, sustainable, and safer Ireland.
#SustainableCities #SustainableTransport #ActiveTransport
The principal challenge for our national parks is the control of grazing. This does not have to be elimination of grazing but most habitats would benefit from not having farm animals
Rewilding, therefore, should be the central priority for national parks
irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…
While cities around the world are showing real ambition and leadership when it comes to #SustainableTransport and changing their cities for the better, Dublin City Council seem unable to even put in a few bus gates...
jrnl.ie/6367049
🗑️ We cannot recycle our way out of our waste problems (or the #ClimateCrisis )!
🌍 We need to move to reusable packaging and forge a path toward a circular economy that's free from waste, toxins, and inequality.
Brilliant piece in the TheJournal.ie!
jrnl.ie/6352033
Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions between 2016 and 2022.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange
theguardian.com/environment/20…
This is the level of ambition and investment we need across Ireland!
At the moment, we're barely aiming to double the number of people cycling on a daily basis by 2040.
It is not good enough. We should be living in a midst of an #ActiveTransport revolution, but we're not...
New review in the The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology provides an up-to-date summary of the epidemiological evidence and mechanistic underpinnings linking air pollution with cardiometabolic risk🫀
Full paper 👉thelancet.com/journals/landi…
Dingle Marathon John Gibbons Running in Ireland Dingle Hub Kerry County Arts Kerry GAA #Netzero is a marathon and a race. Climate and Health Alliance and Irish Doctors for the Environment are trying to reframe this conversation to create a space where we can create a vision Imagining2050 Coalition 2030
Imagining2050 Irish Doctors for the Environment Just Stop Oil 100 Climate Messages Irish Wildlife Trust Dingle Marathon ARC 2020 TalamhBeo Irish College of GPs #Netzero is a sprint & a race. it is more than climate policy, it is inevitable with energy insecurity MaREI.we want to see the health opportunities!
Each year, air pollution is linked to ≈6.7 million premature deaths globally, predominantly in the industrial and urban areas of low- and middle-income countries, where workers face the greatest risks.
Discover ways to #BeatAirPollution on #SafeDay2024 : unep.org/interactives/c…
Urban mobility can be complex. But a birds-eye view shows us that the math of optimal use of road space is remarkably simple! 41 x 🚴 > 9 x 🚗.
(📸 of Nørreport, #Copenhagen by Henrik Lundorf Nielsen)
Irish Doctors for the Environment and Climate and Health Alliance are running Dingle Marathon because…we have only 26 years to realise our #Netzero goals! We want to reframe this as a spectacular health opportunity HSE HSE Health & Wellbeing Irish College of GPs SEAI UCC Ireland University College Dublin Trinity College Dublin Royal College of Physicians of Ireland RCSI
📣To those wanting to show solidarity to Dr Sarah Benn who has been suspended by GMC for 5 months after engaging in peaceful climate action- PLEASE do the following quick actions in this 🧵/
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Adam Kay Dr Rachel Clarke Dr Janaway Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 David Oliver George Monbiot