Anthropogenic environmental change negatively effects human health and is increasing
health-care system demand. Paradoxically, the provision of health care, which itself is a …

Background Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human
wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related …

Summary At the UN Climate Change Conference 26 in Glasgow, 50 countries committed to
low-carbon health services, with 14 countries further committing to net-zero carbon health …

Background Climate change threatens to undermine the past 50 years of gains in public
health. In response, the National Health Service (NHS) in England has been working since …

• In 2021, the Victoria Department of Health in Australia published its Environmental
Sustainability Strategy—Strategic Implementation Plan, which outlines governance …

Background Studies suggest that the Dutch health-care sector is responsible for 4–8% of the
national carbon footprint, but the environmental footprint of this sector beyond climate …

Climate change and other ecological crises threaten the health of humans and the natural
systems on which humans depend. 1 However, such planetary health issues have not yet …

Background Three major international agreements signed in 2015 are key milestones for
transitioning to more sustainable and resilient societies: the UN 2030 Agenda for …

The underlying processes are global in scale, and the natural systems affected are part of
earth's life-supporting infrastructure. This type of health risk thus differs noticeably from more …

In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change announced that to restrict global
temperature rise to 1· 5 C, greenhouse gas emissions must decrease 45% by 2030 …