MSF Australia Annual Impact Report 2023

Climate Smart

MSF Australia contributed $376,855 in 2023 to Climate Smart, an MSF project to scale climate solutions across the organisation. Climate Smart is aligned with MSF’s commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2030.

The project is driving a range of initiatives to address climate impacts on medical humanitarian operations, including energy transition, developing a global MSF carbon baseline, and establishing a sustainable supply chain.

In November 2023, Climate Smart launched the Energy Assessment pilot, with the purpose to identify opportunities for reducing emissions across vehicles, energy and buildings in three projects across Bangladesh, Central African Republic and Iraq.

There is also an ongoing initiative to mitigate the environmental footprint of single use medical items, by orienting procurement towards more sustainable alternatives and rationalising consumption. The first step is identifying the most commonly used single-use medical items and assessing each item’s entire lifecycle, from production to disposal, to understand its environmental footprint.