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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WHO Technical Webinar Series on Climate Change and Health
27.02.2026These technical webinars include practical trainings, experience sharing, interactive activities and group discussions on key topics to support country action on climate change and health.
Measuring greenhouse gas emissions in health systems
07.11.2025This guidance defines a common approach for health system emissions measurement that is aligned with international standards and best practice, setting out how health systems can develop the necessary internal capabilities to measure emissions consistently and effectively over time.
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.
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.
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 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.
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...
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.
Health systems decarbonization: Lessons learned in building capacities in the sector
22.10.2024This 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.
Carbon Footprint Supplier Assessment Questionnaire
23.04.2024This practical questionnaire supports health care organisations and suppliers to assess and report on the environmental and social impacts of pharmaceutical suppliers' practices.
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Sectoral Guidance
23.04.2024This 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
05.01.2024This 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
03.12.2023This 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.
Operational framework for building climate resilient and low carbon health systems
02.12.2023This document presents the WHO Operational framework for building climate resilient and low carbon health systems. The framework’s goal is to increase the climate resilience of health systems to protect and improve the health of communities in an unstable and changing climate, while optimizing the use of resources and implementing strategies to reduce GHG emissions.
Aga Khan Development Network’s Tool to Calculate Health Operations Emissions
15.11.2023This 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.
Climate Impact Checkup Tool and guidance
15.11.2023The Climate Impact Checkup tool can be used to assess GHG emissions baselines of health care facilities using facility-level data on energy, transport, waste, and gases to then calculate footprints based on national or local emissions factors. Downloads include: Excel tool, two training videos, guidance document and slides for users and trainers.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation in Canadian Healthcare
20.06.2023The 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
16.05.2023This 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.
Health Care Climate Footprint
27.03.2023This report provides a global estimate of health systems’ greenhouse gas emissions (with 43 country specific estimates) and examines the contributions of specific elements, such as anesthetic gases. It identifies research gaps to further understand the sector’s emissions and outlines multi-level policy recommendations for climate action.