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20 Apr 2018 |
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Addressing Climate Change in the Health Care Setting: Opportunities for Action
Combating climate change is not a finite goal but an ongoing effort. Whether focusing on fleet management, local sourcing, energy and water conservation strategies, or green energy, climate change response is a continuous process. The important thing is to get started. Initiate the conversation internally, get others excited about ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Healthcare Without Harm
The Climate program for Health Care Without Harm works with health care workers, health care professionals, and hospitals to promote climate leadership. Examples of strategies include employee engagement, clean tech investment, fossil fuel divestment, resiliency, and identifying and supporting clinical climate champions.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Anesthesiology’s Response
It’s time to broaden the scope of our thinking about our health care duties as anesthesiologists, and embrace our role in global health. Anesthesiologists can model conservation practices, through leading by personal example, as well as through education of students, residents, patients, and other health professional colleagues and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate-Smart Healthcare: Low-Carbon and Resilience Strategies for the Health Sector
Climate mitigation, adaptation, and low-carbon and resilient health development strategies reduce emissions, build healthcare climate resilience, and provide significant health and economic co-benefits. Climate-smart healthcare will strengthen health sectors and communities by ensuring access to clean and independent energy, safe ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Second Global Conference on Health & Climate: “Building Healthier Societies Through Implementation of the Paris Agreement” Conference Conclusions and Action Agenda
This document includes conclusions and an action agenda resulting from the conference. The conference responded to the commitments of Parties to the UNFCCC to protect and promote health, and their requests through the World Health Assembly and WHO Executive Board, to renew and reinforce the engagement of the health community to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate and Energy in the Health Care Sector: An Interview with Bill Ravanesi
The health care industry has the power to appreciably move the needle on climate and energy progress. Leaders in the sector are harnessing that power, to the benefit of their communities and the world as a whole.