Yale Center on Climate Change and Health; 3-Part Seminar: Care Without Carbon: Part 2: Lessons from the Greener NHS Initiative: Challenges and Opportunities on the Road to Net Zero Health Care

Using the NHS as a case study, this session will provide an overview of how carbon accounting can be performed for a health care system, how mitigation strategies are developed, and what obstacles can be anticipated.

The National Health Service (NHS) England is the world’s largest health care delivery organization, and has the most robust health care carbon accounting effort in the world. In 2020, the Greener NHS Initiative was launched, committing the organization to achieving ‘net zero’ carbon emissions by 2040. This target is set across all emissions in Greenhouse Gas Protocol Scopes 1, 2 and 3 and includes, estates and facilities, transport and travel, medicines, and medical and non-medical supply chains.

Presented with  the University College London Energy Institute, the Lancet Countdown and the Northeastern University College of Engineering.