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Letter from the Board Chair
May 16, 2022
Recently we sent a letter out to everyone on our mailing list. Jeannet Kessels, VfCA board chair, wrote a heart warming letter listing all that VfCA has achieved in the short time it has...
Read More ShareChief Executive Officer. Remote / Flexible Location
April 28, 2022
Apply Now THE ROLE Are you a multi-skilled professional with a love of animals and a deep concern about climate change? Could you lead an organisation to deliver a Strategic Plan for...
Read More ShareProject Manager - Climate Care Program. Remote / Flexible Location
April 28, 2022
Apply Now Are you a multi-skilled professional with a love of animals and a deep concern about climate change? Could you lead a team of people to develop, promote, monetise, and deliver...
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April 11, 2022
Show your support for climate action with animal posters! Order Here By displaying posters, you'll be helping to: Make support for climate action visible Make it safe for other vet staff,...
Read More SharePress Release: Vets seek government action on the latest IPCC report to protect animals
April 06, 2022
The third installment of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, the Working Group III contribution, has been released. The report is clear that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced to stop the temperature rising further....
Read More SharePress Release: Dr Jeannet Kessels and Dr Ron Glanville congratulate the AVA on their new Climate Policy
April 06, 2022
The chair of Veterinarians for Climate Action (VfCA), Dr Jeannet Kessels, today congratulated the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) for its new policy on climate change and animal health, including welfare, production and biosecurity. ‘VfCA...
Read More SharePress Release: Professor Peter Doherty, VfCA Patron, congratulates the AVA for their new Climate Policy
April 06, 2022
Nobel laureate, Professor Peter Doherty, said today that veterinarians have an important role to play in climate action to reduce the effects of climate change on animals, people and the environment. Professor Doherty said...
Read More ShareBrimbank Vet - Certified Carbon Neutral
March 03, 2022
Congratulations to Dr Jeremy Watson and the Brimbank Vet Clinic! They have become the first certified carbon neutral vet clinic in Australia, now officially on the Australian Government Climate Active Register!Jeremy is an active VfCA...
Read More ShareNational Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy 2021
September 20, 2021
The National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy is set to be updated at the end of the year, after being initially introduced in 2015. VfCA welcomes this update and is keen to lend our...
Read More ShareChief Veterinary Officers (Former) Letter to PM Morrison: The IPCC report and COP26.
September 02, 2021
Chief Veterinary Officers (CVOs), the animal health counterparts to Chief Medical Officers, are the key advisors to the Australian Government on all matters relating to the maintenance and improvement of Australia’s animal health and...
Read More ShareBetter Futures Australia: Open Letter to PM Scott Morrison
August 17, 2021
On the 17th of August 2021, the Better Futures Australia team penned a powerful, succinct letter to our Prime Minister Scott Morrison. This letter was jointly signed by leaders of 99 separate organisations and...
Read More ShareBuilding Victoria's Gas Substitution Roadmap
July 30, 2021
It is no secret that here at VfCA we are strongly against any plan for the future that includes fossil fuels. It was with joy and relief that we greeted the Victorian government's outreach...
Read More ShareBeetaloo Basin Fracking
July 07, 2021
In early July 2021, the Australian government awarded 3 grants totalling $21 million to a gas company seeking to frack the Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory. Vets for Climate Action are strongly against...
Read More ShareThe Sustainable Hospital; VNCA Conference 2021
June 17, 2021
The Veterinary Nurses Council of Australia (VNCA) held it's 27th conference in June 2021, with the theme of “Engage, Explore, Evolve”. The conference, held largely online this year, boasted a long list of renowned...
Read More ShareKurri Kurri Gas Power Plant Submission
June 07, 2021
This week VfCA submitted to the NSW Government objecting to the proposal by Snowy Hydro Ltd. to build a new gas fired power station at Kurri Kurri. It can be read here. A...
Read More ShareReview of the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 Queensland
May 21, 2021
The Queensland Government is reviewing the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 (the ACPA) 20 years since it was first introduced. VfCA has responded with a submission highlighting that the climate crisis is an animal welfare...
Read More ShareTasmania's Climate Change Act Review
April 28, 2021
A four-yearly independent review into the Climate Change Act 2008 for Tasmania commenced in February 2021. The submission by VfCA, prepared by volunteer and local Tasmanian Dr Janet Berry can be read on the...
Read More SharePeter Doherty presents to the Art Gallery of NSW Atelier giving group
April 17, 2021
In April 2021, Vets for Climate Action featured at an event commemorating the animals lost in the bushfires. As part of this, Peter Doherty, Nobel prize winner and our patron, presented a short outline...
Read More ShareThe Australian Government Gas-Fired Recovery Plan Consultation Submission
March 22, 2021
In September 2020, the Australian Government announced their plan to reverse the COVID-19 induced recession by providing support to, and pumping more investment into the gas industry. Here at VfCA, we are steadfastly against...
Read More ShareVfCA submits to the Climate Change Bill 2020
November 27, 2020
Veterinarians for Climate Action has submitted to the House Standing Committee on the Environment and Energy on its review of the Climate Change Bill 2020.
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