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Episode 78
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the need to tackle the fantastic quantities of waste and pollution from the healthcare sector - 5 to 7% of global emissions and 5th largest polluter if we thought of it as a country - and how the doctors, demigods everywhere, are in the process of being nudged to evolve to get to zero-waste and zero-emissions medicine.
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The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the need to tackle the fantastic quantities of waste and pollution from the healthcare sector – 5 to 7% of global emissions and 5th largest polluter if we thought of it as a country – and how the doctors, demigods everywhere, are in the process of being nudged to evolve to get to zero-waste and zero-emissions medicine.
Assaad W. Razzouk
RESOURCES
With special thanks for Prof Chong Yap Seng, Dean of the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore’s first institute of higher learning and one of the leading medical schools in Asia; and Prof Nick Watts, Director of the Centre of Sustainable Medicine at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
The British Medical Journal has compiled all of its articles on the topic here: https://www.bmj.com/campaign/climate-emergency
“Delivering a Net Zero National Health Service” (UK) paper: https://www.england.nhs.uk/greenernhs/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2022/07/B1728-delivering-a-net-zero-nhs-july-2022.pdf
“Evaluating a hospital’s carbon footprint – A method using energy, materials and financial data”: https://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/jha/article/view/22626
“A pathway to net zero emissions for healthcare”: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3785
