Climate change and health
Climate change directly affects health through extreme
weather events, prolonged heatwaves, flooding and bushfires.
It also has indirect health impacts such as:
- poorer air quality
- an increasing incidence of infectious disease
- risks to food safety and drinking water quality and
- effects on mental health.
The data is already showing environmental effects locally as well as health effects for those most vulnerable.
For this reason climate and its impact on health is one of our 5 key health and wellbeing priorities in Our Community Plan 2021-2025.
Our response to climate change and its impacts
- Read our Climate Change Response Plan
- Learn about how we are tackling climate change and its impact on health through Our Community Plan
- Learn how heat vulnerability mapping is helping us manage heat impacts.
The relationship between climate and health
- Better Health Channel - Climate change and health
- Sustainability Victoria - Health impacts of climate change
- Department of Health Victoria -Tackling climate change and its impact on health
Protecting yourself from heat stress and other climate impacts
You can help...
- See our resource Eat Well Live Well – Food waste
- Learn about Waste Management – Recycling programs and initiatives
- Read our Waste Management – Rethink Your Rubbish newsletter
- Visit Sustainability Victoria for information and ideas.
City slashes carbon emissions
A swag of clever and creative initiatives helped the City reduced carbon emissions across its operations by 30 per cent in the four years to June 2021.
Sustainability initiatives slash carbon emissions
The Council is closing in on its ambitious aim of becoming carbon neutral with emissions from its operations slashed by more than 50 per cent since June 2017.