Time | 0930 -0950 |
Delivering Change Now
The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away completely from energy derived from burning fossil fuels. It will identify specific actions that we can all take at a micro-level (individual practice), meso-level (local practices and clinical units) to macro-level (whole of health policy).
Forbes McGain
Forbes is an anaesthetist and intensive care physician at Western Health, Melbourne, Australia, and an A/Prof. (Medicine) at the Universities of Sydney, and Melbourne. Forbes remains passionate about making seemingly small environmental, financial and social sustainability changes to how we practice medicine, as well as that become magnified through every nations’ hospitals.
Forbes is currently collaborating with colleagues at the University of Melbourne and friends within the Doctors for the Environment (DEA) examining ways to make hospitals more sustainable and being stewards for earth’s extraordinary biodiversity.
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