Carbon Accounting
A defensible greenhouse gas number, built on a documented boundary, traceable data and a methodology that stays consistent between reporting years.
Carbon Accounting: Explore this service// Industries
Healthcare
Healthcare organisations operate continuously, cannot compromise clinical outcomes for environmental gain, and carry emissions sources most sectors do not.
Clinical waste, energy intensity, medical gases and a supply chain with limited substitution options.
// Context
What makes this sector different
Healthcare has emissions characteristics that make generic advice unhelpful. Facilities run continuously with strict environmental controls, anaesthetic and medical gases are potent greenhouse gases, and single-use clinical consumables exist for infection control reasons that are not negotiable.
The supply chain is also constrained. Medical products are specified, regulated and often single-sourced, so procurement leverage works differently than in other sectors.
Progress therefore comes from the areas where clinical outcomes are unaffected: building energy, gas selection where clinically equivalent alternatives exist, waste segregation, and procurement categories outside the clinical specification.
// Priorities
What organisations in this sector are working on
- Emissions measurement including medical gases and refrigerants
- Energy management across continuously operating facilities
- Clinical and non-clinical waste stream assessment
- Supply-chain assessment within regulatory and clinical constraints
- Governance and reporting appropriate to healthcare oversight structures
- Staff capability building across clinical and operational teams
// Solutions
How CER helps healthcare organisations
GHG Inventory Development
A complete organisational inventory with defined boundaries, documented sources, quality controls and a base year you can report against consistently.
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ISO Advisory
Gap assessment, system design, documentation and audit preparation for environmental, energy and related ISO management system standards.
ISO Advisory: Explore this service
Sustainable Procurement
Supplier requirements, assessment criteria and contract terms that make sustainability part of procurement decisions and give you the supply-chain data you are being asked for.
Sustainable Procurement: Explore this service
ESG Strategy
A defined ESG position built from material issues, business strategy and stakeholder requirements -- with governance, priorities and a delivery plan attached.
ESG Strategy: Explore this service// CER Academy
Building capability in this sector
Half day
ESG Essentials: A Strategic Overview
Understand what ESG requires of your organisation and where responsibility for it sits.
- Delivery formats
- In person · Virtual live · In-house
Dates confirmed on enquiry
ESG Essentials: A Strategic Overview: View courseHalf day
Carbon Literacy for Professionals: Measurement to Mitigation
Read, question and contribute to a greenhouse gas inventory with confidence.
- Delivery formats
- In person · Virtual live · In-house
Dates confirmed on enquiry
Carbon Literacy for Professionals: Measurement to Mitigation: View courseWorking through a healthcare requirement?
Tell us what is being asked of your organisation and by whom. We will tell you what answering it involves.