Who Carries the Responsibility For Health Care Carbon Reduction? An Analysis of Ethical and Logistical Challenges to Health Care Carbon Reduction at the Individual, Regional, National, and International Level

Cristina Richie; Gabrielle Samuel

doi:10.1002/hast.5008

Who Carries the Responsibility For Health Care Carbon Reduction? An Analysis of Ethical and Logistical Challenges to Health Care Carbon Reduction at the Individual, Regional, National, and International Level

Cristina Richie
, Gabrielle Samuel

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Policy-makers, doctors, organizations, and academics who are persuaded that health care decarbonization is an ethical mandate are grappling with ethical and effective implementation of measures to support this goal. Health care carbon-mitigation strategies (both proposed and potential) at individual, regional (city, state, or council), national, and international levels have already been analyzed to different degrees; however, a comparative analysis of strategies at each of these levels that takes into account bioethical issues such as autonomy, responsibility, and shared decision-making has not previously been conducted (though some analysis between national and international efforts has occurred). This essay offers a comparative analysis of the ethical aspects of health care carbon reduction across these levels, including considerations of responsibility and of the potential for efforts at each level to actually impact climate change.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7-14
Number of pages	8
Journal	Hastings Center Report
Volume	55
Issue number	3
Early online date	25 Jun 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.5008
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 25 Jun 2025

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Who Carries the Responsibility For Health Care Carbon Reduction? An Analysis of Ethical and Logistical Challenges to Health Care Carbon Reduction at the Individual, Regional, National, and International Level. / Richie, Cristina; Samuel, Gabrielle.
In: Hastings Center Report, Vol. 55, No. 3, 25.06.2025, p. 7-14.

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