Climate change and health

Paul Barclay.

Climate change poses a serious risk to public health: more bushfires, heat-related deaths and hospitalisations, diminished safe drinking water, reduced crop production, and a growth in vector, and water-borne diseases. 

Following Australia's hottest summer on record, Paul Barclay speaks to a panel of experts about the relationship between climate change and public health, and how best to deal with threats posed by a hotter planet. 

Listen to the Radio National program recorded on May 1 this year at an Australian National University symposium - “Climate change and health.”