The U.S. Health Care Climate Council recently released a new tool that visually demonstrates climate impacts across a hospital.
The “Climate Action: A Playbook for Hospitals” is an interactive tool that also highlights examples of Health Care Climate Council members’ solutions that are improving climate and health, and saving money too.
On 10 August 2017, GGHH members from the KwaZulu-Natal province, in South Africa, held their first regional forum. There were 18 participants from 10 GGHH members at the meeting.
In 2016, five health care institutions participating in the 2020 Health Care Climate Challenge from Brazil won Climate Champion Awards in recognition of their accomplishments in the areas of climate mitigation, resilience, and leadership. Over 40 institutions in Brazil are have pledged their commitment to protect public and environmental health from the impacts of climate change through the 2020 Challenge. Learn about the work being done by the winning institutions.
