Charting a Course to Net Zero Emissions for the European Healthcare Sector

Climate change is the largest public health threat of the 21st century, threatening to undermine the foundations of health systems. The health sector accounts for 4.6% of global net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, underscoring the imperative for health system decarbonisation.

Health 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 roadmaps to decarbonise health systems. 

This brief was developed in the context of Operation Zero, an HCWH Europe project built upon the vision that every European health system develops a roadmap for its healthcare sector.