Building Momentum to Act on Health Care Decarbonization Webinar Series
This ذكذكتسٍ¤ Climate Collaborative webinar series focuses on sharing resources and building momentum to act on health care decarbonization.
About the Series
Watch theseجwebinars to dive intoجhigh impact interventions that the health care workforce can implement within clinical settings to enhance sustainability and climate action, while also making the broader business case for these efforts.
Meetings and Materials
The series is organized around two pathways with a cross-cutting introduction and conclusion.ج
- Key Actions for the Hospital and Health Care Workforce Pathway
- Health Care’s Path to Decarbonization: Addressing Key Risks and Fostering Resilience
Cross-Cutting Introduction (11/14/24)
The introductory webinar of the series, “Accelerating Health Care Decarbonization: Opportunities and Pathways for Transformation,â€جdiscusses initiativesجthat areجintegrating sustainability efforts into healthجcare.ج
Shared Resources
Key Actions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions by U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems
Why Decarbonizing Matters for the U.S. Health Sector
During this webinar, speakers shared resources that may no longer be available as of 2025. These include the HHS Health Sector Pledge, the Catalytic Program on Utilizing the Inflation Reduction Act, the CMS Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), and the AHRQ Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions Primer. Some of these resources have been .
Key Actions for the Hospital and Health Care Workforce Pathway
For health care staff (clinicians, nurses, facility operations including food services, etc.) and other interested parties
Embedding Environmental Sustainability into Your Daily Practice (12/11/2024)
Clinicians Leading System-Wide Environmental Sustainability Transformation (2/4/2025)
Incorporating Sustainable Food Practices (2/19/2025)
Reducing Single-Use Plastics (3/11/2025)
Addressing Key Risks and Fostering Resilience
For health care leadership (CEOs, CFOs, Sustainability Officers, clinical leaders, etc.) and other interested parties
Financial Strategies for Addressing Climate Change Impacts, Decarbonization, and the Cost of Inaction (4/14/2025)
Legal Implications of Decarbonizing Health Systems (6/13/2025)
How Sustainability Enhances Community Benefit and Resilience (7/2/2025)
Mitigating Operational Risks for Health Care Sustainability Leadership (7/29/25)
Cross-Cutting Conclusion (9/12/25)
The concluding webinar of the series, “A Path Forward: Building Climate-Resilient Health Care at Every Level,†explores how health care leadership and the workforce can drive sustainability and climate resilience forward in a shifting policy landscape. Drawing from the full webinar series, this session highlights high-impact strategies organizations can adopt to embed sustainability into daily operations, organizational culture, and care delivery.
Shared Resources
The external resources on this page do not necessarily represent the views of any one organization, the Climate Collaborative, or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and have not been subjected to the review procedures of, nor are they a product of, the National Academies. We are sharing this curated list based on the expert guidance of Collaborative members to serve as resources.ج
