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Climate-friendly healthcare: reducing the impacts of the healthcare sector on the world’s climate
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1241-5225
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9017-4471
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0007-6956-708X
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2198-6740
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0009-5726-2400
If the global healthcare sector were a country, it would be the fifth-largest carbon emitter, also producing massive volumes of waste. A revolutionary transition to an environmentally sustainable model of healthcare is required. Decarbonisation efforts are initially focused on transitioning to renewable energy sources and improving energy efficiency in healthcare facilities (Scopes 1 and 2). One of the major challenges is to reduce the carbon intensity of the broader healthcare sector, especially operational and supply chain-related emissions, which represent 71% of the sector’s worldwide emissions (Scope 3). This comment briefly describes the connections between the healthcare sector and climate change and describes several high-impact decarbonisation opportunities, focusing on transitioning from current resource and waste-intensive procurement models and highlighting the planetary co-benefits of fostering low-emissions healthcare. To succeed, this transition will require high-level advocacy and policy changes supported by international collaboration at the global level.
Climate-friendly healthcare: reducing the impacts of the healthcare sector on the world’s climate
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1241-5225
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9017-4471
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0007-6956-708X
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2198-6740
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0009-5726-2400
If the global healthcare sector were a country, it would be the fifth-largest carbon emitter, also producing massive volumes of waste. A revolutionary transition to an environmentally sustainable model of healthcare is required. Decarbonisation efforts are initially focused on transitioning to renewable energy sources and improving energy efficiency in healthcare facilities (Scopes 1 and 2). One of the major challenges is to reduce the carbon intensity of the broader healthcare sector, especially operational and supply chain-related emissions, which represent 71% of the sector’s worldwide emissions (Scope 3). This comment briefly describes the connections between the healthcare sector and climate change and describes several high-impact decarbonisation opportunities, focusing on transitioning from current resource and waste-intensive procurement models and highlighting the planetary co-benefits of fostering low-emissions healthcare. To succeed, this transition will require high-level advocacy and policy changes supported by international collaboration at the global level.
Climate-friendly healthcare: reducing the impacts of the healthcare sector on the world’s climate
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1241-5225
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9017-4471
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0007-6956-708X
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2198-6740
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0009-5726-2400
If the global healthcare sector were a country, it would be the fifth-largest carbon emitter, also producing massive volumes of waste. A revolutionary transition to an environmentally sustainable model of healthcare is required. Decarbonisation efforts are initially focused on transitioning to renewable energy sources and improving energy efficiency in healthcare facilities (Scopes 1 and 2). One of the major challenges is to reduce the carbon intensity of the broader healthcare sector, especially operational and supply chain-related emissions, which represent 71% of the sector’s worldwide emissions (Scope 3). This comment briefly describes the connections between the healthcare sector and climate change and describes several high-impact decarbonisation opportunities, focusing on transitioning from current resource and waste-intensive procurement models and highlighting the planetary co-benefits of fostering low-emissions healthcare. To succeed, this transition will require high-level advocacy and policy changes supported by international collaboration at the global level.
Climate-friendly healthcare: reducing the impacts of the healthcare sector on the world’s climate
Sustain Sci
Leal Filho, Walter (author) / Luetz, Johannes M. (author) / Thanekar, Urvi D. (author) / Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta (author) / Forrester, Mike (author)
Sustainability Science ; 19 ; 1103-1109
2024-05-01
7 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Healthcare , Greenhouse gas emissions , Climate change , Decarbonisation , Sustainable procurement , Planetary health Environment , Environmental Management , Climate Change Management and Policy , Environmental Economics , Landscape Ecology , Sustainable Development , Public Health , Earth and Environmental Science
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