Target setting for low carbon sustainable health systems

Overview

The purpose of this document is to supplement the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational Framework for Building Climate Resilient and Low Carbon Health Systems (Box 1) with additional advice and resources on how to set credible and ambitious decarbonization targets for low carbon sustainable health systems.

The intended audience of this document is national or sub-national health systems that have either committed to a health system decarbonization target or are in the process of defining one.

This document provides a checklist of key criteria that can be used to ensure that emissions reduction targets are tangible and clearly defined, consistent with other decarbonization targets inside and outside the health sector, and function as an effective tool for driving and monitoring progress on health system decarbonization.