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)
Gary Cohen, Uncommon Hero
HCWH's co-founder Gary Cohen is a recipient of the prestigious Skoll Award. This video, chronicling the evolution of HCWH's work, premiered at the 2009 Skoll World Forum. enlarge video
HCWH's co-founder Gary Cohen is a recipient of the prestigious Skoll Award. This video, chronicling the evolution of HCWH's work, premiered at the 2009 Skoll World Forum. enlarge video
Tackling Climate Change: The Good News
Many measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have surprising health co-benefits. This is above and beyond the benefits to come from reducing climate change itself. enlarge video
Many measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have surprising health co-benefits. This is above and beyond the benefits to come from reducing climate change itself. enlarge video
Tools and Resources
Video: Impact of Climate Change on Health
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
The message about climate change, and what we'd need to do to tackle it, is usually one of doom and gloom, sacrifice and cost. The good news is many measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have health "co-benefits". This is above and beyond the benefits to come from reducing climate change itself. enlarge video
Websites and Tools
- WHO Climate Change and Human Health website
- GAIA Report on Waste and Climate:
Stop Trashing the Climate - Energy Impact Calculator
What are your facility's energy health impacts and costs? What can you do to improve them?
- US EPA Energy Star program for Health Care website
Articles and Reports
- Health and Climate Change: A short Summary for the Consideration of Negotiators - COP16 (pdf)
- Saving Carbon, Improving Health: NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy for England (pdf)
- Climate Change and Human Health: Present and Future Risks (pdf)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report
- Solar clinics in Tanzania
- Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings (pdf)
- Best Environmental Practices in the Healthcare Sector (pdf), A Guide to improve the healthcare sector environmental performance
