ACTIONS: Resources for climate-conscious healthcare
If you work for a healthcare institution, check out the following resources for more ideas, support, and guidance.
- Global Green and Health Hospitals (GGHH), a project of Health Care Without Harm .
- Health Care Climate Challenge . More than 200 institutions representing more than 18,000 hospitals and healthcare centers in more than 30 countries have joined the challenge and committed to taking meaningful action.
- Climate Action: A Playbook for Hospitals from Health Care Climate Council includes great examples of hospitals taking action.
- Practice Greenhealth is a nonprofit that works to make hospitals more sustainable.
- “Climate-smart health care: Low-carbon and resilience strategies for the health sector” is a report from the World Bank . (It’s intended for providers in developing countries, but the information is useful worldwide.)