Decarbonizing health care facilities
Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century … The impacts will be felt … all around the world – and not just in some distant future but in our lifetimes and those of our children.”
Written 13 years ago in a joint report authored by University College London and The Lancet, that prediction is prophetic given a recent United Nations report confirming the disruption climate change is already causing on every continent.
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Monograph
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Guides/Reports
Learn how your health care facility’s energy reduction efforts compare to national benchmarks with this new report.
Monograph
This code overlay will assist health care systems with their decarbonization efforts