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=== Healthcare's Carbon Footprint === | === Healthcare's Carbon Footprint === | ||
According to the UN, a '''carbon footprint''' is determined by the amount of carbon-containing greenhouse gases (GHG), most notably carbon dioxide and methane, released into the environment by an activity, process, individual, or group, usually expressed as the equivalent in kilograms of carbon dioxide. GHG can be emitted through the burning of fossil fuels, land clearance and the production and consumption of food, manufactured goods, materials, wood, roads, buildings, transportation and other services.<ref name=":0" /> | According to the UN, a '''carbon footprint''' is determined by the amount of carbon-containing greenhouse gases (GHG), most notably carbon dioxide and methane, released into the environment by an activity, process, individual, or group, usually expressed as the equivalent in kilograms of carbon dioxide. GHG can be emitted through the burning of fossil fuels, land clearance and the production and consumption of food, manufactured goods, materials, wood, roads, buildings, transportation and other services.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
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Introduction[edit | edit source]
Climate change and sustainability are at the forefront of current events. The UK hosted the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in 2021 with the aim to accelerate action toward the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.[1] According to the UN, we are experiencing accelerated global warming due to human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, that generate greenhouse gas emissions. Increased concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in our atmosphere insulates the earth, trapping the sun’s heat and raising average global temperatures.[2] Click here to learn more about climate change.
The UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) calls for the “mobilisation of all available resources, participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people” to work toward more sustainable futures. For healthcare professions, including physiotherapists, this is a call for the inclusion of sustainability considerations into daily routines and practices.[3]
Sustainable Healthcare[edit | edit source]
“A system that improves, maintains, or restores health while minimizing negative impacts on the environment and leveraging opportunities to restore and improve it and to benefit the health and well-being of current and future generations.” -WHO definition of sustainable healthcare (Make into quotation box?)
It is the role of the practitioner to do the following when providing sustainable healthcare:
- Prescribe therapeutic or diagnostic interventions while balancing environmental health while providing needed care for an individual’s health.
- Gauge if an intervention is sustainable or not by measuring its carbon footprint.[4]
Healthcare's Carbon Footprint[edit | edit source]
According to the UN, a carbon footprint is determined by the amount of carbon-containing greenhouse gases (GHG), most notably carbon dioxide and methane, released into the environment by an activity, process, individual, or group, usually expressed as the equivalent in kilograms of carbon dioxide. GHG can be emitted through the burning of fossil fuels, land clearance and the production and consumption of food, manufactured goods, materials, wood, roads, buildings, transportation and other services.[2]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ United Nations. UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021. Available from: https://ukcop26.org (accessed 15/11/2021).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 United Nations. Global Issues, Climate Change. Available from: https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/climate-change (accessed 15/11/2021).
- ↑ Maric, F., Groven, K.S., Banerjee, S. & Dahl-Michelsen, T. (2021). Essentials for sustainable physiotherapy: Introducing environmental reasoning into physiotherapy clinical decision-making. Fysioterapeuten, 4/21.
- ↑ Banerjee, S, Sustainable Healthcare. Sustainable Healthcare and Environmental Physiotherapy. Physioplus. November 2021.
