Blog and News

Monthly edition of the UKHACC bulletin with the latest news, opportunities to get involved and have your say, events and reports.

Support for health professionals arrested for taking direct action on the climate and nature crisis: a template letter

The Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill sets the UK on a course to increase new oil and gas extraction that places health at risk and does nothing to enable our transition to a cleaner energy future. Elaine Mulcahy writes.

Monthly edition of the UKHACC bulletin with the latest news, opportunities to get involved and have your say, events and reports.

We’ve created an email template that makes it easy for you to ask your MP to vote against new oil and gas licences. Act now, before the debate on 22 January

In a letter to Keir Starmer and Ed Miliband, UKHACC Chair asked them to argue for an independent review of Rosebank’s impact on health, and that health should be the first concern of government. Here’s the response.

We’ve joined with organisations across health and the environment to call of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to deliver policies for nature and health

Our 2023 report presents a year of growth, commitment and progress for the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change

In December, we wrote to the GMC asking them to allow doctors appearing before them for offences linked to protests on climate change and nature to explain why they have taken the actions they have. We were grateful for a prompt response.

Our Policy Officer, Dr Anandita Pattnaik, shares her experience of attending the COP28 in UAE.

UKHACC Chair, Richard Smith has written to the Labour leadership calling on them to commit to review decisions on new oil and gas licences if in government.

Our thoughts on the outcomes of the two-week discussions at the COP28.