Single use
Time to shift towards circularity.
Waste
Generate less and sort more.
Pharma
Go green, reduce waste water toxicity.
Chemicals
Protect, control, substitute, eliminate.
Transport
Go electric with less cars.
Commute
Use scale to influence.
Food
Change the offer, spill less.
Energy
Reduce and go renewable.
Water
Clean, capture, reuse.
Building
Think forward.
The Net Zero Healthcare Tool
We assist hospitals, medical departments and other relevant actors in healthcare with their move towards net zero by focusing on ecological and economic parameters.
Based on academic literature and our own experiences we selected 10 domains that are relevant to any evaluation in healthcare. Our Net Zero Healthcare Tool combines the best insights and practices.
Ready to make your medical service and hospital sustainable.
Time to focus on sustainability in healthcare
The WHO states that an environmentally sustainable healthcare system is ‘a health system that improves, maintains, or restores health, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment and leveraging opportunities to restore and improve it, to the benefit of the health and well-being of current and future generations’.
And let us be honest, our actual healthcare system isn't exactly 'minimizing negative impacts on the environment'. Due to its large carbon footprint, the impact on climate change is real.
Meanwhile, the WHO identified the increased use of disposable instruments and prepackaged materials as the main reason why healthcare waste tonnages, especially in high-income countries, are increasing in volume strongly over the last couple of years.
Who cares wins
In the 1990s the consensus started to shift that companies and organisations were not only responsible for jobs and shareholder returns but also had to be accountable for the impact of their activities on society and the environment.
A 2004 UN report ‘Who Cares Wins’ popularised the concepts of ESG or environmental, social and governance. Although the initial focus of ESG was on financial markets, many of the concepts found their way into the wider economy, including healthcare organisations.
Sustainability thinking has since evolved and many entrepreneurs, businesses and organisations are now convinced, supported by research data, that sustainability can provide a competitive advantage and add value to the core of the activities.
