Net zero and climate resilient health care services: How do we get there?
Perspectives & Insights
SESSION RECORDING
Climate change and extreme weather events are already increasing health service demand and severely impacting the ability to deliver universal health care. At the same time, healthcare has a significant environmental impact as services are resource intensive and generate substantial waste, creating environmental harm which subsequently affects human health.
The session offered insights into potential options and presented a case study of a framework successfully implemented to achieve the NetZero goal within the healthcare sector. Additionally, it shed light on the challenges of adapting successful approaches from other contexts and underscored the importance of designing local solutions for a global issue.
SESSION SUMMARY
Karin Leder
Professor of Planetary Health and Lead of Health and Climate Initiative, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia
SESSION MODERATOR
Nick Watts
Director, Centre for Sustainable Medicine, National University of Singapore
Madeleine Skellern
Director, National Health, Sustainability and Climate Unit, Department of Health and Aged Care, Australian Government
Paul Klarenaar
Director, Population & Planetary Health, Northern Sydney Local Health District, New South Wales Government, Australia
Katy Bell
Chief Investigator, Wiser Healthcare, NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Angie Bone
Associate Professor of Practice, Planetary Health, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Australia
INVITED SPEAKERS
We gratefully acknowledge the following organisations for providing travel and accommodation support for international speakers in this session.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
