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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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Resilient Health Systems in Asia: A Guide to Contextualizing Vulnerability Assessment Tools for Local Needs

The document “Resilient Health Systems in Asia: A Guide to Contextualizing Climate Vulnerability Assessment Tools for Local Needs”, explores the critical juncture where global climate goals meet the unique complexities of Asian...

Policy brief | Charting a Course to Net Zero Emissions for the European Healthcare Sector

Health 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

These 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.

Resourcing Climate and Health Priorities: Mapping of International Finance Flows, 2018-2022

This report provides an elaborate analysis of the levels and trends in self-reported financing for climate and health, to inform the efforts of countries, funders, implementers and advocates to strengthen climate and health financing.

Air pollution and health: Training toolkit for Public Health Workers

Developed by WHO in collaboration with international health experts and scientists, the Air Pollution and Health Training (APHT) toolkit is a set of materials designed to enable public health workers to understand the health risks...

Practical Guide for Building Climate-Resilient Health Systems

The Practical Guide provides a clear and actionable path for health systems to integrate climate resilience into healthcare planning, guiding them through the concept of climate resilience to the development of a climate resilience plan.

Safe, climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities: an overview

This 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.

Plant-powered Planet: Building a Healthy and Sustainable Food System

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

The 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

This 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)

This 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...

Transition to sustainable plastic packaging for consumer healthcare products

This Position Paper from the Global Self Care Federation (GSCF) outlines the consumer healthcare industry's perspective on policies needed to enhance sustainable packaging for non-prescription medicines and food supplements. It...

Carbon Footprint Supplier Assessment Questionnaire

This document is a basic questionnaire to assess and report on the environmental and social impacts of pharmaceutical suppliers' practices. The questionnaire provides a general survey of impacts and practices in terms of carbon...

Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Sectoral Guidance

This Sectoral Guidance document is designed as a simplified sectoral guidance to supplement general GHG protocol guidance. It aims to assist self-care suppliers in developing a GHG reduction strategy by providing non-technical...

Smart Hospital Initiative: Toolkit

This toolkit provides health system administrators and policymakers a practical guide to strengthening structural and operational aspects and providing green technologies, in order to improve hospitals' resilience and reduce their carbon footprint.

Online training course: Climate Change and Health

This is an interactive online course to understand the interlinkages between climate change and health and the opportunities for addressing the health risks of climate change, building climate resilient and low carbon health systems, promoting the health co-benefits of climate action, and being able to communicate this new knowledge to others.

WHO Food Procurement Frameworks for Sustainability and Health

These two documents combine to provide a comprehensive framework for policy makers and programme managers to implement effective procurement practices which result in healthy and environmentally sustainable diets. They can be adapted for a variety of needs and contexts.