Inbound freight contributes an average of 4% of a healthcare facility's GHG emissions.
Patient transport: healthcare mobility reinvents itself
"In 2011, when we started our business, we had just under 9% of simultaneous transports, and today, in 2019, we're at almost 62%."
Business transport: a different way to get around
"40% of daily journeys are less than 3 km," notes the French Ministry for the Environment. It goes on to say that "an employee who carpools every day over 30 km, alternating with a colleague, saves almost €2,000/year".
Eco-construction: for "energy-averse" buildings
"The useful life of buildings is tending to shorten as a result of increasingly rapid changes in operating methods," explains Xavier Delannoy, CFO of Clinique St. Roch in Cambrai.
Catering: on a carbon diet!
With 19% of the national total, agriculture is the third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in France. With a better understanding of production methods, the cook/manager will be able to make choices that will have an impact on the market and consequently on farmers' choices.
Energy: renewable energy in hospitals
According to the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), energy consumption can account for up to 7% of a healthcare establishment's expenditure, excluding payroll.
Digital: reducing your carbon footprint
The manufacture of digital terminals accounts for 70% of the total carbon footprint of the French digital sector.
Subcontracting and service provision: involving stakeholders
"The main objective in decarbonizing subcontracting and service provision is to involve stakeholders in reducing their own carbon footprint and, in turn, the contracts concluded by health and medico-social establishments".
Purchase: "Think global, act local
The health and medical-social sector is a major purchaser, with spending on hospital equipment alone amounting to 18 billion euros "equivalent to the annual amount spent by the French government, excluding armaments".
Eco-design of care products: to block CO2
Eco-design involves taking environmental issues into account at every stage in the life cycle of a product or service: design, manufacture, distribution, use and treatment as waste.
Anaesthetic gases: invisible, odourless but polluting
The gases used to anesthetize patients are invisible and often odorless, but they generate very real pollution.
C2DS launches the Hospital Climate Convention. Hospitals take action for the planet!
At the end of 2020, 13 groups of healthcare professionals from the C2DS network explored 13 points of entry or action levers needed to "decarbonize" the hospital. The results will be presented in April.
"Sustainable mobility package" in the French civil service*.
Legal watch no. 263 (2020). These decree and order concern civil and military personnel of the French State and its public establishments, coming into force in May 2020.
Sustainable mobility package, private sector
Legal watch no. 262 (2020). This decree concerns employers and employees in the private sector, and comes into force in May 2020.
Everything's running smoothly at CH de Grasse!
For several years now, the hospital has been working on a mobility plan, in conjunction with the Communauté d'Agglomération du Pays de Grasse.
Patient transport with DTSU
During the webinar on decarbonizing the healthcare sector organized by APC, Bruno Pourret - Director of DTSU (Développement du Transport Sanitaire et de l'Urgence) - explained the company's virtuous approach to significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Decarbonization of the healthcare and support sectors" project
Aware that reducing the health and environmental impact of your activity is one of your concerns, C2DS is launching a call for action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon neutrality by 2050: individual effort for collective results
The experts of the Haut Conseil pour le Climat (HCC) have just published their second annual report: the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions remains insufficient in France.
The NHS Net Zera Carbon project
Dr Nick Watts, Executive Director of Lancet Countdown, Chair of the NHS Net Zero Expert Working Group, answers C2DS questions.
Anaesthetic gases - all the same?
Berlin's Hôpital Vivantes de Neukölln, as part of a pilot project on hospital carbon footprint measurements organized by the European association Health Care Without Harm, measured the carbon footprint of anesthetic gases used in its blocks for the year 2016.