Resources
Browse our library of guides, case studies and resources. Developed with our members across industry, the NHS and academia, they share practical tools, methods and real-world learning on sustainable patient care pathways, clinical trials and more.
Whether you're just starting to explore healthcare sustainability or looking to measure and reduce emissions in your own work, you'll find resources here to support you - search below:
or browse useful tags:
Post
The Sustainable Healthcare Podcast
We sit down with the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition (SHC) to unpack what it really takes to decarbonize healthcare
Post
SHC Partner Engagement Meetings
2025 – Spring Partner Engagement Meeting held on 29th April
Link
Open Letter to Clinical Trial Community published by members of the Sustainable Markets Initiative Health Systems Task Force
SMI | Feb 2025 "CEOs from AstraZeneca, GSK, Merck, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, Sanofi and Roche have signed the letter"
Link
Climate footprint of industry-sponsored in-human clinical trials: life cycle assessments of clinical trials spanning multiple phases and disease areas
BMJ | Feb 2025 | "This study aims to calculate the global warming potential, in carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent emissions,...
Post
Knowledge Hub to Help Clinical Trials Reduce their Carbon Footprint
Free online knowledge hub and tool launches, making it easier to measure the environmental footprint of clinical trials
Link
What is the carbon footprint of academic clinical trials? A study of hotspots in 10 trials
BMJ | Oct 2024 "Clinical trials are fundamental to healthcare, however, they also contribute to anthropogenic climate change.."
Link
Quantifying the carbon footprint of clinical trials: guidance development and case studies
BMJ | Jan 2024 "The urgency of the climate crisis requires attention from biomedical research, not least clinical trials which...
Link
A strategy to reduce the carbon footprint of clinical trials
The Lancet | July 2021 "Clinical trials need to be decarbonised and we propose a strategy for doing so."
Link
Healthy patients, healthy planet: tackling the carbon footprint of clinical trials
The Sustainable Healthcare Coalition is developing a tool to track carbon emissions from clinical trials and our Chair, Dr Fiona Adshead...
