This article calls on policy makers to prioritise the health and wellbeing of Australians through robust climate policy.

The authors argue that the health sector must take on a leadership role in championing climate action from a health perspective, to combat the growing health inequities Australians are facing in a changing climate.

The article discusses:

• health sector leadership
• economic drivers of planetary health equity
• policy coherence and planetary health equity, and
• thwarting extinction: making it happen