
Sustainability Resources
Available for download here: Inhaler Toolkit
Other important resources on healthcare sustainability
- IDE Public Consultation on Climate Action Plan 2021
- HSE Policy on Sustainability Directive 2017–2019
- Green Hospitals
- The Lancet Global Health – Human health and environmental sustainability: the 21st century’s grandchallenges
- American Society for Healthcare Engineering – Environmental Sustainability in Hospitals: The Value of Efficiency
- World Health Organization – Environmentally Sustainable Health Systems
- Environmental Protection Agency – Ireland’s Environment
- Healthcare Without Harm – Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Healthcare through Sustainable Procurement
- Irish College of General Practice – Planetary Health Resources, including blog posts by IDE members Dr Sean Owens and Dr John Allman

“To walk through a forest uncharacteristically barren of snow in wintertime, or through a hospital ward dominated by older and chronically ill patients, is to witness two of the greatest challenges of our time: the degradation of the Earth’s ecosystems and the shift in human disease towards that driven by our lifestyles and our surroundings. Both challenges are inseparable: climate change, ecosystem destruction, massive losses in biodiversity, a warming ocean, soil degradation, and pollution are wreaking havoc on our planet and sickening us.”
Lancet Global Health – Human health and environmental sustainability: the 21st century’s grand challenges