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Organized by Health Care Without Harm and its Global Green and Healthy Hospitals (GGHH) program, this webinar will present the findings and recommendations from the Health Care Without Harm report on Health care’s climate footprint and showcase the innovative solutions that members of the GGHH network are implementing around the world to take climate action and reduce the climate footprint of the health care sector.   In September 2019 Health Care Without Harm, in collaboration with Arup, published the Health care climate footprint report. The report establishes the first-ever global estimate of health care’s climate...

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine, and the Australian College of Emergency Physicians declared climate change a health emergency, urged governments to take action, and to implement policies and strategies to mitigate its impact and promote adaptation. Their announcement follows the Australian Medical Association's recent declaration of climate change a "health emergency".

Health care’s climate footprint is a report developed by Health Care Without Harm in collaboration with Arup. It provides the most comprehensive global analysis of health care’s contribution to climate change to date.

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.