HHS Celebrates Earth Day 2024 with Fact Sheet of Accomplishments
Increasingly, climate change and environmental hazards threaten the health of people in the United States and around the world. HHS and the entire Biden-Harris Administration have mobilized to address these challenges in the most vulnerable communities, to build resilience in healthcare systems and to accelerate decarbonization of the healthcare sector.
Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions: A Primer on Measures and Actions for Healthcare Organizations to Mitigate Climate Change has continued to expand. This initiative, which was originally launched on Earth Day 2022, invites private sector health organizations to align with the Biden Administration’s goals for resilience and decarbonization, including achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050. So far 139 organizations have signed on, including health systems representing 943 hospitals as well as leading health centers, suppliers, insurance companies, group purchasing organizations, pharmaceutical companies and more.
ACF has released a series of videos on how OCS programs address the many facets of environmental justice, from expanding clean energy to providing disaster relief in historically underserved communities. Some of these spotlights include highlightingsmall business growth
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