Climate-Smart Healthcare: Low-Carbon and Resilience Strategies for the Health Sector
- Abstract
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 water, clean transport, and clean waste disposal mechanisms. It will stimulate the development and supply of sustainable products, while also preparing the sector for a future of known and unknown health-related climate hazards.
- Resource Type
- Report
- Author
- Timothy Bulley et. al.
- Date
- 2017
- Institution
- World Bank
- Health and Human Impact
- Overview/general
- Emission Source
- Healthcare
- Solutions
- Climate adaptation/resilience Public health/health sector response
- Region
- International
- Other
- Co-benefits/co-harms Vulnerable populations