Greening health-care systems: a Canadian opportunity in a post-pandemic world

The will and expertise in our provincial and territorial health-care sectors is such that building a climate resilient and low-carbon, sustainable health system is not only possible, but could be a direction that Canada may be able to take international leadership in.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on Dec. 8, 2021, on the Hill. Canada was one of 50 countries that committed to develop climate-resilient and low carbon, sustainable health systems out of the COP26 Health Program. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SENATOR STANLEY KUTCHER AND SENATOR MARY COYLE

December 13, 2021

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the challenges that our health-care systems have had to deal with when faced with an existential crisis—and we have learned many things. Chief amongst these, that business as usual will not help us through previously unexperienced challenges, ...

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