Time

0910 -0930

Powering Healthcare with Renewable Energy

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).

Ben Dunne

Ben Dunne is a Thoracic Surgeon working at Royal Melbourne Hospital, is the Deputy Chair of the Victorian Doctors for the Environment Australia and is part of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Environmental Sustainability in Surgical Practice Working Group. He is passionate about reducing the carbon footprint of healthcare delivery.