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The climate crisis is a health crisis. The climate and ecological emergency underpins all the social and environmental determinants of health. Climate action can have huge health benefits.

Approximately 60% of the carbon emissions of primary care arise from our clinical work.

40% of the carbon footprint of primary care comes from non-clinical sources, and there are some easy wins from taking action on non-clinical carbon.

Health inequalities are exacerbated by the climate crisis. People in poorer countries and communities bear the greatest burden of harms. And the drivers of the climate crisis and health inequalities are often the same.

Sustainability and planetary health are increasingly becoming embedded into the medical curriculum.

Sustainable healthcare aims to work in partnership with patients and communities to improve health, whilst reducing the impacts of the climate and ecological crisis.

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