MS CAROL BEHNE Sustainable Healthcare Program Manager, CAHA
Health sector leaders showcase action for low carbon, climate resilient healthcare Policy, research and practice for advancing low carbon and climate resilient healthcare in Australia and New Zealand
The Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA) and its
Questions like how do we include the healthcare
members have advocated for a low carbon, climate
sector in this shift; how do we engage our decision-
resilient and sustainable health system for over a
makers, colleagues, suppliers and patients in the
decade.
process; and how do we overcome inevitable
As Australia’s peak body on climate and health,
barriers to progress?
and coordinators of the Global Green and Healthy
In Perth, CAHA proudly teamed up with the WA
Hospitals network (GGHH) in the Pacific region,
Health Sustainable Development Unit to address
CAHA faces many questions from its members and
some of these questions through our annual
healthcare institutions to help them transition to a
Greening the Healthcare Sector Forum. Held
sustainable future.
between September 14-15, it was the first time the
But this transition brings with it many questions.
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Forum had been conducted in the west on beautiful
