Target setting for low carbon sustainable health systems

Download or read book Target setting for low carbon sustainable health systems written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting credible and ambitious decarbonization targets is a key step in implementing low carbon sustainable health systems. This document provides advice and resources to assist national and sub-national health officials in setting adequate decarbonization targets, as a supplement to the WHO Operational Framework for Building Climate Resilient and Low Carbon Health Systems. It contains a checklist of key considerations that can be used to ensure that emissions reduction targets are tangible and clearly defined, consistent with other decarbonization targets inside and outside the health sector, and function as an effective tool for driving and monitoring progress on health system decarbonization.