Shaping a sustainable future: Health care and the climate crisis
Join Royal College of Nursing's panel on 28th August to discover measures to tackle climate change and explore planetary health.
About Shaping a sustainable future: Health care and the climate crisis
| 28th August 2025 | |
| 5.30pm - 8pm in person / 6pm - 7.30pm online | |
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Royal College of Nursing 42 South Oswald Road, Edinburgh South EH9 2HH |
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| This is a free event | |
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With health and care services a major contributor to the climate crisis, including emissions, energy use, consumables and resources, there are clear health and climate benefits of action to reduce the effects. Health professionals have a significant role to play. Join our panel to discover measures to tackle climate change and explore planetary health.
Our speaker panel includes:
Dr Sandy Robertson, Co-Clinical Lead for GreenED and Chair of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Environmental Specialist Interest Group, about the initiative on greener emergency departments, GreenED, and the green accreditation framework for Emergency Departments that has been running in NHS Lothian and NHS Fife, including how this contributes to net zero targets and creates financial savings for emergency departments while maintaining or improving patient care.
Xiru Li on empowering nurses to action sustainable changes from the front lines in cancer care in Canada. Xiru Li is a Canadian nurse with a decade of experience in paediatric oncology and community nursing. As a settler of colour, she grew up on the traditional unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Xiru understands Planetary Health as informed by Traditional and Indigenous knowledge systems, and approaches this discipline with deep humility for the limitations of Western epistemologies. Currently, Xiru is working with the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment to develop a Planetary Health Fellowship program.
Kurnia Yuliandari, on 'Uncover nurses’ environmentally sustainable practices in perioperative care in Indonesia. Kurnia is an Indonesian nurse and has been working as a lecturer with School of Nursing Universitas Gadjah Mada. Drawing from her experience in responding to climate related disasters in Indonesia, she has developed an immense interest in the impact of climate change on health care delivery and health care sustainability in limited resource facilities.
Joining us in person? Drop in activities at the exhibition launch include:
- Add your reflections on climate change to our creative question panel.
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