The ATACH Community of Practice resource repository aims to make resources which directly support delivery of the COP26 Health commitments easily accessible.
The resources can be filtered by:
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- ATACH working group
- COP26 commitments
- Geographic applicability
Decarbonizing the healthcare supply chain: strategic actions for health systems
07.11.2025This report outlines practical strategies for decarbonizing health supply chains through aligning sustainable procurement practices, optimizing product and service use, and accelerating supplier action. It outlines key interventions for leaders and policymakers, including procurement levers and low-regret actions to reduce carbon emissions.
Environmental stewardship guidebooks for health care managers and clinicians
31.10.2025These environmental stewardship implementation guides for boards, executive leaders, and clinical staff provide practical recommendations to integrate sustainability in everyday professional practice.
Accelerating towards net zero: A guide for the Australian health system
15.10.2025This guide includes research and case studies from over 50 organisations and 135 health practitioners and policymakers across Australia,
Sustainability Accelerator Tool (SAT)
15.10.2025This online tool and platform helps health care facilities assess sustainability maturity, prioritize actions, and track progress toward more efficient, low-carbon sustainable and climate‑resilient health care.
Anchored by health care: Strategies for health systems
15.10.2025This 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.
Health Care Without Harm training platform
15.10.2025This training platform offers free courses and online learning modules for health care professionals and leaders to build their capacities in emissions reductions, toxic material elimination and climate resilience strengthening. Course contents include expert insights and practical tools.
Global Green and Healthy Hospitals: a comprehensive environmental health agenda for hospitals and health systems around the world
15.10.2025This framework of ten sustainability goals guides hospitals and health systems in reducing environmental impacts, improving public health, and strengthening global health system resilience.
EDGE software, green building standard and certification system
15.10.2025EDGE is a global green building standard, software, and certification system that helps projects achieve measurable resource efficiency, supporting cost‑effective sustainable design and access to green finance.
GSC Sustainability Toolbox
15.10.2025This toolbox provides a curated set of resources, including case studies, guides, glossaries, and external links to advance climate resilience and sustainability in health facilities and systems.
"Plastic smart hospitals" A review of plastic usage within the hospital sector: Exploring methods to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic
15.10.2025This resource summarizes effective measures to reduce, replace and recycle plastic in hospital settings, based on the experience of a university hospital in Norway.
Sustainable system-wide commissioning: How a whole system approach leads to more sustainable healthcare
15.10.2025This guide outlines principles and tools to integrate sustainability considerations in decision-making on health care service design, procurement and delivery.
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.
Guidance on mainstreaming biodiversity for nutrition and health
15.10.2025This WHO guidance outlines approaches to integrate biodiversity into food systems to improve nutrition, health, sustainability, and resilience.
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.