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Climate, healthcare and the Race to Zero: A call to action
Presented with the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, this grand rounds session will highlight how the Global Roadmap for Health Care Decarbonization can help the health care sector meet the goals of the Race to Zero – to halve emissions by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 – and why clinician leadership is critical in meeting this goal. Visionary health systems understand that reducing health care emissions and creating climate resilience are at the core of their mission to improve health. Two such systems are Providence (US) and Aravind Eye Care System (India), who have both signed onto the Race to Zero and committed to reduce emissions across all scopes in line with the Paris Agreement. In this call to action session, Gary Cohen, president and founder of Health Care Without Harm, will be joined by clinical leaders from Providence and Aravind Eye Care System, who will share why their institutions are taking action to achieve net-zero emissions, along with the role of clinicians in meeting this goal. In addition, Beth Schenk will discuss Providence’s bold commitment to become carbon negative by 2030 using their WE ACT framework. Dr. Rengaraj Venkatesh will share how Aravind Eye System is challenging conventions about surgery and showing the world that surgery’s environmental footprint can be decreased through efficiency and decreasing waste without compromising quality.