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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Environmental stewardship guidebooks for health care managers and clinicians
These environmental stewardship implementation guides for boards, executive leaders, and clinical staff provide practical recommendations to integrate sustainability in everyday professional practice.
Adaptation Action and Evaluation Plan Template (AAEP)
This template is a flexible tool that guides planning, implementation, communication, evaluation, and management of a climate and health adaptation action.
Climate resilient health clinics toolkit
This toolkit provides hazard‑specific resources that help health care facilities strengthen preparedness for extreme weather, protect patients, and enhance climate resilience.
Assessing health vulnerability to climate change: A guide for health departments
This document provides step-by-step guidance to conduct a climate change and health vulnerability assessment following the CDC's BRACE framework approach.
Technical documentation on exposure-response functions for climate-sensitive health outcomes
This technical guidance supports the development of exposure‑response functions for climate‑sensitive health outcomes. It outlines available data sources, epidemiologic methods, and examples to help public health practitioners estimate current and future climate‑related disease burdens.
Anchored by health care: Strategies for health systems
This resource outlines strategies for health systems and facilities to act as anchor institutions that advance equitable community health and climate resilience. It presents engagement models, case studies, and best practices for transformative, community‑centered collaboration.
12 steps to operationalize climate change in a local health department
This fact sheet outlines a 12‑step framework to integrate climate change into local public health operations to protect community health.
Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) framework
The BRACE Framework provides step-by-step guidance to build health resilience to climate change, with a strong focus on justice, equity and belonging. This resource includes an explainer document, implementation guide and training.
Projecting climate-related disease burden: A guide for health departments
This guide outlines methods for projecting climate‑related disease burdens using climate data, epidemiologic evidence, and modeling approaches. It supports health authorities in assessing future risks and planning adaptation measures.
Smart Hospitals Toolkit
This 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.
Building health care sector resilience toolkit
This toolkit outlines best practices, checklists and a five-element framework for climate-resilient health care facilities based on the US context.
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...
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.
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.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation in Canadian Healthcare
The resource provides guidance and outlines available tools for measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in healthcare and provides an overview of the current state of estimation across Canada. While primarily aimed at Canadian health care organizations the tools and guidance are more widely applicable globally.
Designing a Net Zero Roadmap for Healthcare: Technical methodology and Guidance
This resource describes a methodology, which includes guiding principles and methods, for a national or regional health authority to measure their health systems emissions and develop a decarbonisation roadmap that is compatible with the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Climate Change and Health Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments: A Knowledge to Action Resource Guide
This guide offers tools and guidance for conducting vulnerability and adaptation assessments (V&A) in Canada. It includes assessment guidance tools and completed Canadian study examples. It is a useful resource for others conducting a climate change and health V&A assessment.