Greening the health sector. The Climate and Health Alliance is promoting a new tool being rolled out internationally to help the health sector respond to its responsibility to reduce emissions and to minimise its environmental footprint to protect and promote health. Together with our international partner, Health Care Without Harm, and Australian partner, the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, the Climate and Health Alliance, is encouraging all health care organisations to join the Global Green and Health Hospitals Network. All members of this network have access to a comprehensive framework to achieve greater sustainability and to contribute to improved public environmental health.
The Network is quickly becoming a vibrant international community of hospitals, health systems and member organizations, all seeking to implement and the Agenda, achieve measurable outputs and share best practices (for more see www.greenhospitals.net). Founding Network Members include the Sustainability Unit of England’s National Health Service, the Indonesian Hospital Association, the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, Thailand’s Department of Health, the Healthier Hospitals Initiative in the United States and individual hospitals in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, England, Mexico, Costa Rica, Nepal and India, and Australia.
The Climate and Health and Alliance and Australian Hospitals and Healthcare Association are co-hosting a Policy Think Tank on Greening the Health Sector’ at Luna Park in Sydney on Wednesday 22 August. This event will feature the Australian launch of the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda, the new tool for health care settings around the world, developed by the Climate and Health Alliance’s new international partner, Health Care Without Harm. Click here to register now! If you would like to know more about Global Green and Healthy Hospitals, please contact [email protected] or call 0438 900 005.