Green Deal on Sustainable Healthcare
The healthcare sector emits an enormous amount of carbon. It also creates a large amount of waste owing to the single-use equipment it uses. A growing number of healthcare providers and health professionals want to make a bigger contribution to a healthy living environment. This is why in 2022 a number of healthcare organisations collaborated on creating a new Green Deal (Green Deal on Sustainable Healthcare 3.0).
Five themes
Achmea has signed up to the Green Deal. This contains more tangible and more ambitious targets. It also contains a stronger commitment to promoting good health and prevention, as well as to improving awareness and knowledge of the impact healthcare has on the climate and environment and vice versa.
The five themes of the Green Deal are:
- More active commitment to promoting good health.
- Improving knowledge & awareness.
- Reducing carbon emissions, with the target of climate neutrality in 2050.
- Reducing use of primary raw materials, with the target of maximum circular healthcare in 2050.
- Reducing the environmental impact of (the use of) medication.
Sector plans
The parties in the healthcare sector are collaborating to translate the targets and agreements into sector plans. These clarify how to implement the agreements in the Green Deal and what is required to do so. This process is being facilitated by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.