Collaborate and advocate

Get active and fight for the futures of women and girls worldwide.

Healthcare professionals are some of the most trusted voices on climate change. Use yours to call for systemic action and draw attention to the health harms of the environmental crisis.

Women's Health SusNet

Join the Women's Health Sustainability Network hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. Share knowledge, ideas and examples of good practice.

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Clean Air Night

Did you know that wood burning is the most polluting way to heat your home?

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I want to take action as an individual

Read 9 things you can do for your health and the planet and commit to one action you will work on.
Talk openly with friends and family and share resources. The more people who act the bigger the collective change.

I want to take action in my local hospital

Join your trust sustainability working group or set one up if it doesn’t yet exist.
Incorporate and sustainability as a standing item in clinical governance meetings. Make sustainability part of business as usual.
Encourage your hospital to take part in a Green Team Competition. Raise awareness while cutting emissions and saving the trust money.
Join the Clean Air Hospital Framework.

I want to use my voice to call for wider change

Join a local climate action group or environmental advocacy group (see list below).
Write to your local MP about an environmental issue that is important to you. Draw attention to the health benefits of protecting the environment.
Hope For The Future have letter-drafting guidance on key issues including clean air and the phase out of fossil fuels.
Advocate for organisational change at a local and national level such as divestment from fossil fuel companies and implementation of green plans.