Business case for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Coalition on Climate and Health Short summary November 2023 Lowitja Institute acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first custodians of the land, seas and waterways of Australia and pay respect to their culture and knowledges that have sustainably cared for Country. [...] In this spirit, we have a shared commitment to strengthening health system resilience, preparedness and responsiveness to climate change, and reducing health, social and economic inequities within and across communities offices of the Lowitja Institute are and generations. [...] We publisher, Lowitja Institute is granted work for the health and wellbeing exclusive rights to copy, publish of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres and use the content of the paper. [...] Throughout community engagement, Lowitja Institute identified a need for a national body that brings together diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders with varying levels of capability, interest, and scope to advocate for and create opportunities for our peoples’ leadership, and to work alongside government and the international community at the strategic and policy level. [...] 3 On this basis, Lowitja Institute recommends the establishment of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Coalition on Climate and Health (the Coalition), which will empower our peoples’ leadership and enable our peoples’ diverse voices, knowledges, and perspectives to be heard by government and by the international community.
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