Healthcare Climate Health
The Workshop Toolkit
Reducing waste. Preventing disease. Recycling. Telehealth. Renewable energy.
Make Healthcare Healthier
Strengthen energy infrastructure. Support your patients. Reinforce supply chain. Prepare for crises.
Build Resilience
Why Decarbonize Healthcare?
Health care leaders are often surprised to learn that their operations contribute significantly to a warming climate.
Demonstrating their commitment to community health through actions like installing on-site solar power, long-term purchases of renewable energy generation, and reducing waste can yield a positive return on investment while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Toolkits will help you plan and facilitate a workshop for your teams. Preparation materials for can help participants build some knowledge in advance. For the workshop, interactive discussion guides, real case studies, and call-to-action exercises can help educate and engage attendees in reflection and discussion, and ultimately, action.
Decarbonizing Healthcare Workshop Toolkits
Plan Your Workshop
Decide on your agenda and duration. Do you have an hour? Two hours? A half-day? This workshop can adapt to your constraints.
Engage Your Audience
Consider including three key components in your workshop plan:
INTERACT: Decarbonization Slide Decks: Interactive Learning about Climate & Health & Making Healthcare Healthier
TAKE ACTION: Decarbonization Exercises: Building off the examples of others, imagine the actions you can take to make healthcare greener and better.
Make Meaningful Change
The potential for impact doesn’t end at the conclusion of your workshop. Suggestions for follow-up activities include a post-workshop survey, additional readings, podcasts, and other materials to share., and information about organizations to follow or join.
SAMPLE WORKSHOP AND RETREAT AGENDAS
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A Decarbonizing Healthcare Workshop
A sample agenda. [60 - 90 min]
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A Decarbonizing Healthcare Retreat
A sample agenda for a deeper dive. [2 - 3 hrs]
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Agenda
Pre-read Options
Recommended readings/podcasts/videos to choose from
Optional Pre-session Survey
WORKSHOP (60-90 min)
Making Healthcare Healthier (20-30 min)
Presentation deck options (links)
Interactive Exercises (20-30 min)Teams work on real opportunities for decarbonizing health with downloadable discussion guide and worksheet
What Can We Do Round Table Discussions (20-30 min)
Reflect together and discuss next steps for your business or organization using downloadable discussion worksheets
[Post-Workshop]
Recommended readings and other materials
Optional Post-session Survey
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Agenda
Pre-read Options
Recommended readings/podcasts/videos to choose from
Optional Pre-session Survey
WORKSHOP (2-3 hrs)
Health, Climate, & Making Healthcare Healthier (60 min)
Presentation deck options (links)
Case studies (optional, 30 min)
Review the initiatives taken by leading health systems across the world (links) with a downloadable discussion guide
Interactive Exercises (60 min)
Teams work on real world opportunities for decarbonizing health with dodwnloadable discussion guide and worksheet
Next Steps Planning (30 min)
Reflect together and discuss next steps for your business or organization using downloadable discussion worksheets
[Post-Retreat]
Recommended readings and other materialsOptional Pre-session Survey
“A low-carbon health care system is actually just a good health care system.”
— Nick Watts, MD, UK NHS National Sustainability Officer
“Climate change is the greatest threat to global public health in the 21st century.”
— World Health Organization
““Sustainability is preventative medicine on a grand scale”