Advancing Climate Health in Arizona

The AzNA Climate Change and Health Workgroup will meet on Monday, June 6^th at 5:30 pm Register is Open.

 In our April 3^rd post, we highlighted the White House and HHS reopening of the Health Care Climate Challenge and the plan to accept new signatories on an ongoing basis.  

Specifically, pledge signers committed to:

1. At minimum, reduce organizational emissions by 50% by 2030 (from a baseline no earlier than 2008) and achieve net-zero by 2050, publicly accounting for progress on this goal every year.
2. Designate an executive-level lead for their work on reducing emissions by 2023 and conduct an inventory of Scope 3 (supply chain) emissions by the end of 2024.
3. Develop and release a climate resilience plan for continuous operations by the end of 2023, anticipating the needs of groups in their community that experience disproportionate risk of climate-related harm.

Nurses can help lead this effort in Arizona; learning more about how we can start will lead the way. The Practice Greenhealth website provides several reports to help nurses understand the health sector’s impact on climate change including the Health Care Climate Footprint Report.  The report makes the case for a transformation of the health care sector that aligns it with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius. "Places of healing should be leading the way, not contributing to the burden of disease,” says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization.  Read the report and start thinking about how we can engage Arizona’s health care sector to act now.

Don’t forget to Complete the Interest Form to join our workgroup and Register to attend our June Meeting.

Thank you for joining us and engaging today!