U.S. healthcare systems participate in global climate change conference

Healthcare systems around the world urge government action


U.S. healthcare systems recently participated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 21st Conference of the Parties, according to an article on the Health Facilities Management website.

The Global Climate and Health Alliance urged governments to commit to taking climate change actions that will protect patients and the public.

“There is incredible energy and determination here in Paris to address climate change,” Sister Susan Vickers, vice president of corporate responsibility, Dignity Health, San Francisco, said while attending the conference.

Five U.S. healthcare systems that have pledged to reduce their own carbon footprint also attended the climate change conference.

Besides Dignity, they include Gundersen Health System, Kaiser Permanente, Partners HealthCare and Virginia Mason Health.

Read the article.

 

 



January 5, 2016


Topic Area: Energy Efficiency


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