Accelerating the Path to Net Zero Healthcare

Event Synopsis

Accelerating the Path to Net Zero Healthcare

Climate change threatens to undermine the core determinants of good health, and the very foundations on which our healthcare systems are built. The health profession is increasingly responding to this challenge, working to reduce its contribution to carbon emissions (estimated to be 4-5%, and higher than both shipping and aviation combined).

The talk will cover the ‘why’, the ‘what’, and the ‘how’ of healthcare decarbonisation, drawing on examples from Singapore, the UK, and across the world.

Lecture By Professor Nick Watts MBBS, MA, BMedSci, FFPH

Professor Watts is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Medicine, leading NUS’s efforts to accelerate the transition to net zero and resilient healthcare systems, across the world.

Prior to NUS, he worked as the Chief Sustainability Officer for the NHS in the UK, where he led the Greener NHS team and spearheaded their efforts to efforts to deliver low-carbon healthcare, resulting in over S$1 billion invested in net zero healthcare. He is a medical doctor, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians’ Faculty of Public Health, and has worked as the Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown, and as the founder of the Global Climate and Health Alliance and the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change.