Emissions Reduction Target Report
Acting Now for Better Health: A 30% Reduction Target for EU Climate Policy (pdf)
read the press release
Acting Now for Better Health: A 30% Reduction Target for EU Climate Policy (pdf)
read the press release
WHO-HCWH Climate Report
Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings (pdf)
Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings (pdf)
Tools and Resources
The Impact of Health Care
Most people now know that climate change is a serious issue. Few, however, are aware of the extraordinary impacts that climate change will have specifically on health. The Climate Code Green Campaign addresses the impact of climate change on health. enlarge video
Dr. Pendo Maro, Senior Climate and Energy Advisor, Health Care Without Harm, and Dr. Michael Wilks, board member of HCWH Europe, talk about how investment in reducing greenhouse gases produces immediate and lasting benefits to health. enlarge video
- Emissions Reduction Target Report, Acting Now for Better Health: A 30% Reduction Target for EU Climate Policy provides the first-ever estimates of the health savings for different Member States should the European Union move from the current 20% target to a 30% target on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. (pdf)
- Health and Fiscal Co-benefits of Emissions Reductions: Summary for Negotiators: This briefing states the health and fiscal co-benefits of emissions reductions. (pdf)
- Addressing Climate Change in the Health Care Setting: Opportunites for Action outlines seven steps health care systems can take to reduce their climate footprint while improving public health, and presents examples from around the world. (pdf)
- Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems, a US EPA study (pdf)
- Carbon Reduction for Health Systems: learn more at the website of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit, UK
- Climate Change and Human Health: Present and Future Risks, Lancet 2006 (pdf)
- Co-Benefits to Health of a Strong EU Climate Change Policy (pdf)
- Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings aims at addressing the climate footprint of the health sector (pdf)
- Impact of Climate Change on Child Health, Ambulatory Pediatrics 2003 (pdf)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently concluded its Fourth Assessment Report
- Lancet Series report on Health and Climate Change
- Making the Case for Policy Makers (pdf)
- World Health Organization website for information about Climate and Health
Policies, Resolutions, and Open Letters
- 17 September 2012, Ministers debate but do not decide on Europe’s energy mix
- 20 June 2011, letter calling on President Barroso to intervene on EED and ETS. By the Climate Group.
- 1 February 2010 letter calling on EU heads of state to increase the European target on climate change: Health Groups Call for 40% Target on Carbon Emissions
- 22 January 2010 HCWHE HEAL climate letter to EU Commission Concerning Europe's emissions reduction target to the UNFCCC Secretariat, 31 January 2010: Protect Health through Ambitious EU Climate Change Commitments
- 08 January 2010 Post-Copenhagen Position Statement
- 16 December 2009 action at COP15 Conference: Tackling the Twin Threats of Climate Change and the Global Health Gap
- 23 October 2009 HCWHE HEAL climate letter to EU Heads of States and Governments Concerning the EU Position for COP 15: Make EU Climate Finance Deal Healthy to Help Broker the Copenhagen Deal
- 14 October 2009 HCWHE HEAL climate letter to Members of the European Parliament Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI Committee) concerning proposals for amendment of the "European Parliament Resolution on the EU strategy for the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change (COP 15)": Bring Health to the Centre of Climate Change Towards Copenhagen and Beyond
- 20 October 2009 HCWHE HEAL climate letter to EU Environment Ministers: Council Conclusions on the Preparation of the EU Position for COP 15
- 10 September 2009 HCWHE HEAL climate letter to EU Commission Communication COP 15 Briefing: Stepping Up International Finance: a European Blueprint for the Copenhagen Deal
- 2 July 2009 HCWHE HEAL climate letter to European Region National Focal Points for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): Put Health in the Centre of Climate Change Work Towards Copenhagen and Beyond
- 30 June 2009 HCWHE HEAL climate letter to EU health ministers ahead of Bonn: Health Must Become Central to Climate Change Towards Copenhagen and Beyond
- 6 June 2009 HCWHE HEAL climate letter to EC and health ministers: Improving Health Representation in Climate Change Discussions and Outcomes: Call for EU Health Delegation at Climate Change Talks
Tools for the Health Care Sector
- Fact Sheet Air Pollution Diseases Download (pdf)
- Fact Sheet Atopic Diseases Download (pdf)
- Fact Sheet Air Pollution Diseases Download (pdf)
- Fact Sheet Flooding Download (pdf)
- Fact Sheet Food-borne Diseases Download (pdf)
- Fact Sheet Heat Download (pdf)
- Fact Sheet Vector-borne DiseasesDownload (pdf)
- Fact Sheet Water-borne Diseases Download (pdf)
- Securing Proven Healthcare Energy Reduction for the Ecosystem: SPHERE by Premier (pdf)
- Green Guide for Health Care Report:
A Prescriptive Path to Energy Efficiency for Hospitals
download report (pdf) read abstract (pdf) - Healthcare Energy Project Guidebook, designed to provide decision makers with knowledge about improving energy efficiency (pdf)
- EPRI Report: Background, Trends, Issues, and Opportunities in Healthcare (pdf)
- EPRI Report: Energy Market Profiles: Hospital Buildings, Equipment, and Energy Use (requires login)
