Health professionals can be powerful teachers of the links between climate change and health.   Increasing public understanding of the health effects of climate change is crucial, in order to build healthy public policy, strengthen community action for health and reorient health services to respond to the climate health emergency. Given their health expertise and high levels of community trust, health professionals are uniquely powerful in building links between climate change and health within the minds of their patients, clients, colleagues...

Imagine a world where health services and organisations worked together for a more sustainable and healthy future…   The Global Green and Healthy Hospital (GGHH) network is a free, vibrant international community of hospitals, health facilities, health systems and health organizations, dedicated to reducing their ecological footprint and promoting public and environmental health. The network connects and supports people leading the environmental agenda in healthcare institutions so they can share best practices and find solutions to common challenges. Health institutions...