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The 2024 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia emerging as a hotspot for litigation

PJ Beggs, AJ Woodward, S Trueck, MK Linnenluecke, H Bambrick, AG Capon, Z Lokmic-Tomkins, J Peel, K Bowen, IC Hanigan, NB Arriagada, TJ Cross, S Friel, D Green, M Heenan, O Jay, H Kennard, A Malik, C McMichael, M Stevenson Show all

Medical Journal of Australia | Published : 2025

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Abstract

The MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change in Australia was established in 2017 and produced its first national assessment in 2018 and annual updates in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. It examines five broad domains: health hazards, exposures and impacts; adaptation, planning and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement. In this, the seventh report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown, we track progress on an extensive suite of indicators across these five domains, accessing and presenting the latest data and further refining and developing our analyses. We also examine selected indicators of trends in hea..

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