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2025 European Sustainable Healthcare Awards reveal this year's champions

The winners of the 2025 European Sustainable Healthcare Awards were announced during the CleanMed Europe conference. Meet the winners.

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2025 European Sustainable Healthcare Awards winners

Reshoring medicines: Europe's opportunity to build a sustainable pharmaceutical industry

As Europe rethinks its dependence on offshore pharmaceutical production, the push to reshore medicines presents more than a supply chain solution.

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Introducing the Born Green Generation framework

The 'Born Green Generation: Why and How' marks the first step in a broader framework aimed at transforming maternity and paediatric healthcare.

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BGG vision website

Projects

After the Single Use

After the Single Use brings together anthropologists and historians to analyse the lifecycles of single-use plastics, and collaborate with…

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After the single use

C.A.R.E.

Community of Action for the Reduction of Emissions — a learning initiative to accelerate the sustainable transition of the healthcare sector.

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The Reusable Textiles Revolution

This project seeks to transform the health care sector's dependency on plastic and toxic materials by promoting reusable alternatives.

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Textiles

European Healthcare Climate Summit 2024

The 6th edition of our annual conference on climate-smart healthcare took place on 10 October 2024.

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EHCS

Carbon management mentoring programme | Previous editions

Read about the previous editions of the Carbon management mentoring programme, supporting healthcare providers in calculating and managing the carbon…

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PharmaSmart

Helping pharmacists build their green skills in greening pharmaceutical practice

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Resources

Report | Tackling AMR in the Environment: How the EU Can Lead the Way

New report on the urgent need to address environmental pollution as a driver of antimicrobial resistance and actions required to mitigate its impact.

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Leading by Example: Climate-smart Healthcare Solutions in Europe

This catalogue of case studies showcases climate-smart healthcare best practices from the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals (GGHH) members in Europe.

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Cover page of the catalogue Leading by example: Climate-smart healthcare solutions in Europe

Workshop report | Greening the pharmaceutical supply chain: A collaborative path to sustainability

This report gives insights from the workshop on pharmaceutical pollution, focusing on green manufacturing, stronger EU policies, and collaboration.

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