Healthcare Saves! Healthcare Pollutes! Healthcare is responsible for 7% of Australia's carbon emissions, consumes 10% of Australia's GDP, and has numerous other adverse environmental effects. This talk introduces healthcare's polluting ways, and how clinicians can mitigate their own carbon footprint. Action is the Antidote to Anxiety! For more head to our podcast page #CodaPodcast

1. DELIVERING
CHANGE NOW
Forbes McGain
TOGETHER

2. Out Of ALICE
RFDS 2006

3. One hour of desflurane
N2O similar
Two days of
sevoflurane 30 Litres of
petrol
YOU HAVE AGENCY

4. LCA =
LIFE CYCLE
ASSESSMENT

5. LANCET PLANETARY HEALTH 2018;2:e27-35
7%
AUSTRALIA’S CO2e EMISSIONS
AUSTRALIAN HEALTHCARE

6. BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA 118(6):862-9 (2017)
AN LCA STORY
A COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO MELBOURNE
HOSPITALS

7. 7

8. BEHIND THE SCENES

9. 9
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
CO
2
Emissions
(kg
CO
2
equivalent)
Anaesthetic Equipment
GHG Emissions(kg CO2e)

10. 02.05.21 Climate plan to cut emissions and create jobs
2025 Vic. hospitals will be powered by 100% renewable electricity
Renewables make Reusables Better
MEDIA RELEASE

11. HEALTHCARE SUSTAINABILITY:
BUSINESS AS USUAL

12. NEW BUILDS
SA
ALL ELECTRIC IS REAL
ACT SA VIC

13. EVERYTHING
MATTERS

14. Thanking Western Health: Sustainability Team, CEO, ICU, Anaesthesia, Research Group

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THEY’RE IN OUR HANDS NOW