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UVM Medical Center joins UN-backed Race to zero climate action campaign

Logan County hospital named champion in saving the climate

The hospital has implemented several energy cost-saving initiatives, resulting in approximately $70,000 in savings each year.

'You can't have healthy people on a sick planet': How healthcare is correcting its role in climate change

In the U.S., healthcare accounts for 10% of the nation’s CO2 emissions. Fierce Healthcare spoke to industry leaders to understand the challenges of addressing climate change, and the solutions.

Climate Change, Health and Surgery: A Call to Action

Netcare and Standard Bank launch Africa's first sustainability-linked bond

March 17, 2021 Nigel Beck Standard Bank JSE-listed Netcare, which operates a network of hospitals and other healthcare services in South Africa and Lesotho, has launched Africa’s first sustainability-linked bond, in partnership with Standard Bank.  The coupon rate of these bonds is linked to the issuer’s achievement of certain pre-agreed sustainability performance targets. In Netcare’s case, the group aims to reduce its energy consumption, procure more renewable energy, reduce total carbon emissions, and further improve its water efficiency, partly by increasing its capacity to recycle grey water. In addition, Netcare is developing systems to ultimately convert all infectious healthcare risk waste (HCRW) produced on-site to inert products and achieve zero waste to landfill for waste, outside the HCRW stream, by 2030.