Climate and Health Toolkit for Healthcare Businesses

The climate crisis is also a health crisis

Climate change poses a real and urgent threat to our society and economy, with potentially devastating acute and chronic impacts on human health.

Business is critical in determining whether we can create a world in which more than nine billion people live well, within planetary boundaries. Both through its own actions, and its influence on supply chains, consumers and policymakers, business has the resources, leverage and creativity to drive real change – at scale and speed.

The Climate and Health Coalition has developed this toolkit to enable healthcare businesses to act on climate and health. It offers practical guidance on incorporating integrated climate and health considerations into corporate strategies.

About this toolkit

This toolkit represents an evolution from the Climate and Health Coalition's last two guidance documents, with the specific goal of improving accessibility and facilitating the implementation of prior guidance across various functional areas within the healthcare sector.

Who is this toolkit for?

This toolkit is intended for healthcare businesses, encompassing procurement teams, policy and external affairs teams, research and development professionals, and communications teams.

Read the 2021 guidance

Read the 2022 guidance

The business case for integrated climate and health action

Business is critical in determining whether we can create a world in which more than nine billion people live well, within planetary boundaries. Both through its own actions, and its influence on supply chains, consumers and policy makers, business has the resources, leverage and creativity to drive real change – at scale and speed.

Explore the business case for integrated climate and health action

Understanding your organisational starting point

Take this short assessment to understand where your organisation is when it comes to acting on and prioritising climate and health.

The ‘Getting Started’ guidance that follows, offers recommendations for what you can do to act on the interconnected issues and accelerate your organisational journey.

Take the assessment

Learn more about your organisational starting point

Based on the results of your organisation's assessment, we recommend exploring the resources below

1 - Getting started

2 - Action module: Mapping and visioning

3 - Action module: Visionary leadership

4 - Understanding the business case for action

5 - Explore case studies

6 - Further reading and resources

About the Climate and Health Coalition

The Climate and Health Coalition is a multi-stakeholder initiative with a mission to mobilise and equip the private sector to play a key role in accelerating the transformation of our health and climate systems, towards outcomes that deliver benefits for both people and planet.

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