GGHH Roadmap

From fires to flooding and extreme heat, communities around the world are facing the effects of climate change. Concurrently, plastic pollution is accelerating, contaminating ecosystems and communities. These crises are two of the greatest threats to human and planetary health of our time. 

For healthcare institutions around the world, these are not distant threats; they are operational and public health emergencies already affecting care delivery, infrastructure, supply chains, and most importantly, public health. Dangerous weather events, disease outbreaks, poor air quality, and pollution are intensifying the pressure on healthcare in every part of the globe. 

Yet the health systems responding to the impacts of these crises are also contributing to them. With resource-intensive operations, increasing climate emissions, and high use of single-use plastic, the global health sector is fueling the problem they also have to treat. This creates a profound contradiction—but also a historic opportunity for transformation.

Healthcare systems can—and must—become part of the solution. By transforming how care is delivered, how resources are used and how institutions prepare for a changing world, the sector can help create a healthier, more resilient future for people and the planet.

The GGHH Roadmap presents the vision for this transformation and the journey that the network can commit to taking together to achieve it. It is an important opportunity and a call to action for healthcare institutions everywhere to redefine what healthcare means in the 21st century. 

Commit and transform together.

The GGHH Roadmap centers on four action areas where healthcare institutions can most effectively build climate resilience, cut emissions, reduce avoidable plastics, and protect people and the planet.