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Children's hospitals are unique and inspiring places where, with grit and grace, patients and their families face some of life's toughest challenges. They are places where the state of the art in paediatric care and rigorous research meets the profound human values that children inspire—kindness, hope, and even youthful joy—to help children live longer, healthier lives and overcome diseases that were once incurable. It is now time for children's hospitals to apply their expertise to the next major threat to child health: climate change and the deterioration of the environment.
Health professionals organizations from South Asia, South-East Asia, South Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean celebrated the publication of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) revised guidelines on Air Quality and called their respective governments to work collaboratively to solve the air pollution crisis.
The US healthcare system is the greatest polluter of any industrialized healthcare system in the world, responsible for 8.5% of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Between 2010 and 2018, the US sector’s emissions rose 6% – a correlation associated with increasing demand and investment.
Doctors and medical practitioners representing some of the largest associations and networks of public health professionals today called upon South Asian Governments to phase out fossil fuels - oil, gas and coal - to avert the twin crisis of air pollution and climate change. They also endorsed the Fossil Fuel Treaty and called for a just and fair transition that puts people’s health first.
Josh Karliner, International Director for Program and Strategy, Health Care Without Harm urges health leaders globally to lead by example to chart a course toward zero emissions health care across three pathways: health care delivery and operations, the global supply chain, and the broader economy.
Health care systems across the world join UN Race to Zero in the world-first commitment for ambitious climate action from a sector at the frontlines of the Covid-19 crisis.
May 24, 2021
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hospitals and other healthcare facilities worldwide can prepare better for both climate change and future pandemics by adopting green technology and cutting planet-heating emissions from their operations and supply chains, health experts said on Wednesday.
On April 14, 2021, Health Care Without Harm, in collaboration with Arup, launched The Global Road Map for Health Care Decarbonization: a navigational tool for achieving zero emissions with climate resilience and health equity. The Road Map is the first of its kind to chart a global health care course to zero emissions by 2050.
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April 12, 2021