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Health Care Without Harm has developed this webpage as a resource center for our partners around the world, for members of our Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network, and for the broader community engaged at the intersection of environment, climate change and health.

Documents, guidelines, and resources to guide your sustainable procurement.

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Learn about our project on energy efficiency and colling in project hospitals in Argentina, China, and the Philippines.

They say “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”, yet many health care facilities don’t record how waste is produced and managed. This set of six spreadsheet-based waste trackers, developed by Health Care Without Harm in consultation with strategic partner Health Environment and Climate Action Foundation (HECAF360), is designed to help bridge this gap and help health care facilities understand and control their waste management. Each one applies to a different stage of the waste management process, and they may be filled in by different people playing different roles in the system. Optimized for daily data entry, the tracker produces clear summary tables and graphs that a waste manager, waste management committee, or facility director can quickly view to assess system performance and make informed decisions. Most of the tools have a degree of flexibility so – for example- names of categories of waste can...

The Sustainable Procurement Index for Health (SPIH) is a globally established, recognised and adaptable procurement measurement tool. You can access the tools here

Water resource conservation and reuse. The acquisition and installation of a Wastewater Treatment Facility reduces the use of fresh water by at least 70%.

Maintain the same level of electrical energy consumption through the year 2028 using the limit calculated for 2020. This level will be maintained even with the expansion of the hospital and the potential increase in thermal loads used. Reduce GHG emissions by 50% by 2030 compared to 2020.

The hospital reduced total energy consumption by 40%. The energy reduction will result in a 15% reduction in total GHG emissions.

The Second Hospital of Jilin University has been actively working on sustainability for years, and has made outstanding achievements in building energy savings, medical waste management, and hazardous chemical reduction.

Sustainable Health in Procurement Project (SHiPP) case study: China Environmental United Certification Center, Beijing, China.

GGHH sustainability focal points have engaged the National Centre for Disease Control procurement officers and supply chain professionals to move sustainability through the agency.