GGHH News & Updates

Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD), a GGHH member from Australia, announced that it will be carbon and waste neutral by 2030.

The Sustainable Healthcare and Climate Health Aotearoa Conference 2021 will be held virtually and in person in Wellington-New Zealand on 22-23 June.

On 3 February 2021, the Andean Health Organization / Hipólito Unanue Agreement (ORAS-CONHU, for its acronym in Spanish) joined GGHH.

Join the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Health Care Without Harm in the launch of their new report: Chemicals of Concern for the Health Sector.

On February 19, the Health and Environment Leadership Platform (H.E.L.P.), the Indian arm of GGHH, will host the webinar “Waste management and statutory compliance in Indian hospital settings”.

The 5th Green Hospitals Asian Conference (GHAC) was held last October 8-10, 2019 in partnership with Khoo Teck Puat Hospital Singapore and Yishun Health. It is a three-day conference themed “Towards a Sustainable, Climate-resilient Asian Healthcare”. The conference has two distinct parts, a pre-conference and main conference.

Health Care Without Harm is honored to announce the 2020 Climate Champions of the Health Care Climate Challenge. This year we are recognizing over 40 health care institutions spread out across 17 countries on 6 continents.

Health Care Without Harm is honored to announce that our Health Care Climate Challenge initiative will become the official health care partner of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Race to Zero campaign.

CleanMed 2020, Europe’s leading conference on sustainable healthcare, will be held online from 23 November – 4 December. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘leadership for sustainable healthcare’, and the event will cover many of the success stories and current challenges in the healthcare sector.

Ambulance Victoria, a GGHH member from Australia, have submitted a new case study in which they describe their long-term action plan to source 100% of their energy needs from renewable sources by 2025, and to transition to net zero carbon by 2050.

On October 20, the Health and Environment Leadership Platform (H.E.L.P.) is hosting the webinar “Reducing Healthcare’s Carbon Footprint: Lessons in Effective Hospital Waste Management”.

Queanbeyan Hospital and Health Service, a GGHH member from Australia, have submitted a new case study in which they introduce the R.A.W. (Rescued and Wasted Food) Project, which focused on reducing organics in the waste system, reducing costs while meeting clinical guidelines.