Health professionals across Australia will join students and young people at the nationally coordinated School Strike for Climate today, which calls for an end to publicly funded gas projects in Australia.

HESTA Super Fund, the Australian Medical Association, and 59 other health groups have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, calling on the federal government to scale up emissions reduction strategies to prevent premature deaths and declining health outcomes associated with climate change.

The first ever road map to guide the health sector to zero greenhouse gas emissions has been launched in Australia by the Climate and Health Alliance and Global Green and Healthy Hospitals (Pacific Region).