The ATACH Community of Practice resource repository aims to make resources which directly support delivery of the COP26 Health commitments easily accessible.
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Smart Hospitals Toolkit
15.10.2025This practical toolkit guides health care facilities in becoming climate‑smart, disaster‑resilient and environmentally sustainable through safety assessments, green standards, baseline audits, and policy and construction guidance.
Climate-Smart Health Care: Low-carbon and resilience strategies for the health sector
15.10.2025This resource outlines approaches for development institutions to advance low‑carbon and climate‑resilient health systems. It includes tools and measures to reduce emissions, strengthen preparedness, and support sustainable healthcare planning and operations.
12 steps to green a kidney unit
15.10.2025This practical guide outlines key actions for kidney units to reduce emissions, improve resource efficiency, and strengthen resilience across clinical operations and patient care.
Climate change and health research: Current trends, gaps and perspectives for the future
15.10.2025This global review summarizes climate‑and‑health research trends, evidence gaps, and priority areas to guide policies, investments and action.
Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment : Chapter 7 Climate Change
15.10.2025This Compendium Chapter provides an overview of the main guidance from WHO and other UN organizations on climate change and health, including recommended actions, involved sectors, level of implementation, instruments and evidence level.
Strengthening health resilience to climate change : Technical briefing
15.10.2025This briefing outlines evidence on climate-related health risks and presents key health system functions, strategies and interventions to build health resilience to climate change.
UN initiative on greening procurement in the health sector: from products to services
15.10.2025This report analyses UN health‑sector procurement practices and identifies opportunities to integrate environmental sustainability and reduce its environmental footprint.
Briefs for parliamentarians on realizing the co-benefits of action on climate and the environment
15.10.2025This collection of briefs informs parliamentarians about the health, social and economic co-benefits of climate and environmental action, offering key evidence, talking points and priority actions.
Unequal climate justice for people with disabilities: insights and evidence from communities and civil society organisations
04.06.2025This report offers practical insights and recommendation to ensure disability inclusion in climate action.
Policy brief | Charting a Course to Net Zero Emissions for the European Healthcare Sector
26.03.2025Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Europe developed this policy brief to offer actionable recommendations to national and sub-national health systems, ministries of health, and other governmental organisations derived from developing...
Aga Khan Health Services' Sustainability Guidelines for Staff
20.03.2025These Sustainability Guidelines are an open-access resource promoting staff-wide engagement in sustainable healthcare through practical strategies, awareness, and innovation, while emphasizing key co-benefits of sustainability in healthcare.
Safe, climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities: an overview
29.11.2024This guidance summarizes key information and strategies for creating safe, climate-resilient, and environmentally sustainable health care facilities. It provides definitions, actionable guidance, and resources for implementation by health care managers, practitioners, and national authorities.
Green Surgery: Reducing the environmental impact of surgical care
26.11.2024This report provides actionable recommendations and case studies showing how to reduce the environmental impact of surgical care, while maintaining high-quality care and generating health system savings. It is also linked to an e-Learning module on Green Operating Theatres.
Plant-powered Planet: Building a Healthy and Sustainable Food System
26.11.2024This evidence-based policy report highlights the importance of food system transformation for health and sustainability. It outlines key policy interventions to address interlinked challenges of food insecurity, environmental degradation, and health.
Lessons from patient safety to accelerate healthcare decarbonization
13.11.2024This article outlines key lessons learnt and best practices from the field of patient safety which could serve as catalysts to accelerate healthcare decarbonization and reduce greenwashing. It describes challenges and opportunities for healthcare sustainability efforts and provides several recommendations for additional steps to prevent greenwashing for voluntary sustainability programs.
National policies to accelerate climate action in US healthcare
13.11.2024This manuscript published in Nature Climate Change describes efforts to mobilize climate actions for U.S. healthcare, which contributes about 8.5% of national greenhouse gas emissions. The authors detail recommendations for...
Health Care Actions for Reducing Plastic Use and Pollution
13.11.2024This article describes how plastic waste from healthcare, much of which consists of single-use plastic devices, harms the environment and human health. The authors discuss sociotechnical approaches to reduce healthcare plastics...
Quality criteria for integrating health into Nationally Determined Contributions
07.11.2024The document provides guidance for integrating health into countries' Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), aiming to improve their quality and ambition. It supports national officials in understanding climate plans and key entry points for health, covering a structured approach, quality criteria, examples, and resources to address health impacts and promote climate-resilient and low-carbon sustainable health systems.
Health systems decarbonization: Lessons learned in building capacities in the sector
22.10.2024This brief presents key lessons learnt from Health Care Without Harm’s experience in greenhouse gas (GHG) national baselining, action planning initiatives, and capacity-building strategies. These lessons learnt can help shape future approaches for countries working to measure and reduce health care-related emissions and enhance sustainability.
WHO Case Study Series on Climate Change and Health (2022)
24.09.2024This case study series was published by the WHO in response to a call for case studies on climate and health in 2021-2022, in the momentum of COP26. These case studies showcase examples of work that is already being implemented...
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