Health sector leadership in mitigating climate change: experience from the UK and NSW.

The threat to human health from climate change means that all levels of government and private and public agencies will need to change their current practices to reduce carbon emissions. The health sector will also need to respond and change practice. The National Health Service in the United Kingdom is developing a systematic and strategic approach to reduce its carbon footprint, as described in the recently released NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy for England.

'Steep learning curve' in reduction scheme.

Glen Hadfield, MIHEA, area assets and energy manager, Sydney West Area Health Service, reports on how the sizeable Australian Government health agency embarked on a ground-breaking energy abatement scheme, and the significant challenges overcome and lessons learned in the process.