GGHH News & Updates

Edward Rubinstein is Director of Environmental Compliance, Energy & Sustainability at University Health Network (UHN) based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Started in 1999, this multi-award winning environmental sustainability program has implemented a variety of innovative initiatives that have led to energy savings, successful product substitutions and changes in user culture to foster a more sustainable health care.

The recording of our 2019 webinar, Health care’s climate footprint: Report findings and opportunities for action, as well as the presentations of our presenters are now available for GGHH members to access on GGHH Connect. Organized by Health Care Without Harm and its GGHH program, this webinar presented the findings and recommendations from the Health Care Without Harm report on Health care’s climate footprint and showcased the innovative solutions that members of the GGHH network are implementing around the world to take climate action and reduce the climate footprint of the health care sector.

Health Care Without Harm applauds England’s National Health Service (NHS) for its bold declaration that it will chart a course to net-zero climate emissions.

This GGHH SE Asia Webinar Session will delve into the findings of the 2019 Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change, and zero in on the newest Lancet Countdown Indicator focused on the benefits and harms of air conditioning.

Save the date to attend the next Sustainable Healthcare Forum Aotearoa and the new Climate Change & Health Conference, set for June 16-17 at Wellington, New Zealand.

The Association of Healthcare Providers – India, the Centre For Environmental Health, and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), HCWH strategic partner in India, recently published the report ‘Climate Change & Health. Role of Health Sector’.

Twenty-four participants attended the first assessor training session on the National Green Hospital Standard on September 7 and 8, 2019, at the Public Health Foundation of India campus. Participants represented both public and private hospitals from different parts of India. The Health and Environment Leadership Platform (HELP), the Indian chapter of Global Green and Healthy Hospitals, participated in the event and has been integral to the development of the standard.

Netcare, a GGHH member and Climate Challenge participant, has won the prestigious 2019 Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) Sub-Saharan Africa Region Corporate Energy Management Award, which was presented to the Group at a ceremony held in Washington DC in the United States, earlier this week.

Organized by Health Care Without Harm and its Global Green and Healthy Hospitals (GGHH) program, this webinar will present the findings and recommendations from the Health Care Without Harm report on Health care’s climate footprint and showcase the innovative solutions that members of the GGHH network are implementing around the world to take climate action and reduce the climate footprint of the health care sector.

From antibiotic stewardship and infection prevention and control measures, to wastewater treatment and procurement practices, healthcare facilities have a vast range of tools at their disposal to combat AMR. It remains clear, however, that if no effective action is taken, AMR will increasingly damage public health and place a greater burden upon already strained healthcare budgets.7

Health Care Without Harm and GGHH are pleased to announce the Health Care Climate Challenge has reached several important milestones that demonstrate the commitment of the health care sector to play a key role in addressing climate change and advocating for a healthy planet.

If the global health care sector were a country, it would be the fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter on the planet, according to Health care’s climate footprint: How the health sector contributes to the global climate crisis and opportunities for action, a new report by Health Care Without Harm in collaboration with Arup.