Health care is responsible for 7% of our carbon emissions, and there are safe and easy ways this can be reduced
- Written by: Scott McAlister, Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
ShutterstockWhile we think of carbon emissions coming from manufacturing and agriculture, we don’t often think of those arising from health care. In Australia, health care is responsible for 7% of national carbon emissions, while globally, health care is responsible for 4.4% of emissions.
If global health care was a country, it would be the...