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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Sustainability Accelerator Tool (SAT)
This 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.
Health Care Without Harm training platform
This 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.
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.
"Plastic smart hospitals" A review of plastic usage within the hospital sector: Exploring methods to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic
This 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
This guide outlines principles and tools to integrate sustainability considerations in decision-making on health care service design, procurement and delivery.
Climate-Smart Health Care: Low-carbon and resilience strategies for the health sector
This 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.
Climate change and health research: Current trends, gaps and perspectives for the future
This 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
This 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.
UN initiative on greening procurement in the health sector: from products to services
This report analyses UN health‑sector procurement practices and identifies opportunities to integrate environmental sustainability and reduce its environmental footprint.
Climate-resilient health development: High-level health care climate action Principle 1
This paper outlines policy and operational recommendations for economies in Asia and the Pacific to develop a climate-resilient health sector through ten priority action areas.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Target setting for low carbon sustainable health systems
This document contains key considerations and a practical checklist to assist health system administrators and policy makers in setting credible and ambitious decarbonization targets for the health sector.
Aga Khan Development Network’s Tool to Calculate Health Operations Emissions
This Excel tool calculates the GHG emissions of health care facility operations. It converts readily available data from health facilities and community-based programs into instant carbon read-outs using accurate and up-to-date carbon conversion factors. Downloads include: Excel tool and guidance document in both English and French.