Climate Action + Healthcare

Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis

CASCADES supports Canada’s healthcare community in transitioning towards high-quality, low-carbon, climate resilient care.

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Information and tools for your healthcare setting.

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Courses to guide your sustainability journey.

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Meet people across Canada who are creating change.

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A reusables first approach to healthcare

“Reusables first” prioritizes the purchase of reusable products and devices over single-use disposables whenever possible and clinically appropriate.

Find opportunities for reusables in healthcare, implementation resources, and suggested strategies to adopt reusables at care sites.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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WHAT WE OFFER
Introduction to Sustainable Health Systems
This self-paced online course will introduce you to the relationship between climate change, health, and health systems
Fundamentals of sustainable health systems
A professional education program for those interested in harnessing opportunities to achieve high quality, low carbon care.
Specialized courses
Courses that build on Fundamentals to focus on particular practices, roles or settings.
Implementation and knowledge exchange
The Planetary Health & Sustainable Care ECHO is a collaborative space to discuss, troubleshoot, and celebrate efforts across settings and specialties

Training

Whether you are just getting started or have years of experience, we offer professional training programs that teach you how to be environmentally sustainable at your site.

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Training

Whether you are just getting started or have years of experience, we offer professional training programs that teach you how to be environmentally sustainable at your site.

Explore courses
WHAT WE OFFER
Fundamentals of sustainable health systems
A professional education program for those interested in harnessing opportunities to achieve high quality, low carbon care.
Specialized courses
Courses that build on Fundamentals to focus on particular practices, roles or settings.
Breakthrough Collaboratives
Spread successful local sustainable healthcare innovations using QI methodology

Action Areas

 

Explore 10 priority action areas for high-quality, low-carbon, sustainable and climate-resilient health systems.

For each action area, you will find a mix of robust, implementation-ready resources, training to strengthen your local capacity, and ways to get connected with others working in this space.

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Care pathways Pharmacy and prescribing Perioperative care Primary and community care Clinical specialties Improving health through climate conscious clinical care System enablers Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Strategy and Performance Measurement Procurement Operations and infrastructure

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