Greening health care: How hard can that be?

Abstract

There are two key policy questions when addressing climate change and health care: where do we start and how do we move forward? This pragmatic exploration of the climate change issue and its impact on health care delivery starts from the premise that a proper understanding of the scope of the problem and a focus for bringing a broad range of people together to develop solutions is the place to begin policy discussions. Far from a standing start, there is much work already underway at the global and local levels. What is recommended is a forum that can bring people and ideas together in a creative, engaged and cross-generational dialogue that prepares for change in health care to meet the challenge of climate change.