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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Getting the message right: Heat risk communication to protect children
17.07.2025This presentation, webinar recording and technical note provide recommendations for communication and action to protect pregnant women and children from heat stress.
Climate-resilient acute care clinical operations: A framework that informs how operations within acute care build climate-resilient health systems
25.06.2025Health leaders increasingly recognize climate change as a critical issue for healthcare. Granular guidance is needed to operationalize adaptation, resiliency, and mitigation strategies. This new framework supports climate-resilient acute care clinical operations through strategy development, implementation, and evaluation in Canadian health facilities.
The Low Carbon Fruit Tree for primary care
25.06.2025This narrative review highlights 19 initiatives that can be integrated into primary care to lower emissions and costs by reducing reliance on high-intensity services like emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
Reusables first approach to healthcare
25.06.2025This playbook provides an overview of opportunities for reusables in healthcare, implementation resources and strategies for adopting reusables at care sites.
Journey of a Pill
25.06.2025The study traces a clonazepam pill’s 63,000 km global journey—from raw material extraction in India and China to manufacturing, testing, and packaging across Asia, Europe, and the U.S.—highlighting the complex supply chain and significant environmental impact of pharmaceutical production and distribution.
Green Hospitals: Maximizing Health and Climate Benefits Globally
25.06.2025This publication examines energy efficiency, waste management, water sustainability, supply chain optimization, telemedicine, and biophilic design in healthcare as interventions to reduce carbon emissions, enhance climate resilience, and improve health outcomes globally.
Policy brief: Humanitarian action in the planetary crisis
04.06.2025This policy brief outlines actionable recommendations for humanitarians, researchers, policy makers and donors to protect people, animals, plants and ecosystems.
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.
Resilient Health Systems in Asia: A Guide to Contextualizing Vulnerability Assessment Tools for Local Needs
31.03.2025The 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
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.
Resourcing Climate and Health Priorities: Mapping of International Finance Flows, 2018-2022
17.01.2025This 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
17.01.2025Developed 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
10.12.2024The 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
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...