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| Credit: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine estimated that this year’s heat waves across Europe resulted in an estimated 16,500 extra deaths. “The study covered cities representing about 30% of Europe’s population, meaning the true death toll is likely to be far higher.”
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| Credit: Australian Climate Service |
In November 2023, the federal government’s Australian Institute of Health and Welfare published a media release titled “Extreme weather is leading to more injury hospitalisations, with heat being the main cause”.
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| Native forest - Mt Worth State Park |
The Albanese government’s Net Zero Plan released just this month states, “Land based abatement, particularly reforestation, is the most cost effective abatement to help reach net zero emissions in 2050”.
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| Precious urban woodland - Elizabeth Cl Drouin |
Indisputably, we are not going to achieve net zero without reducing emissions. It is equally indisputable that protecting and enhancing our native forests, woodlands and urban tree cover will go a long way toward combatting the effects of global warming.
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