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Environmental sustainability

      10. Environmental sustainability

Last revised: 29 May 2025

Good clinical practice can be both high quality and low carbon.

As Australia faces the increasing adverse health impacts of climate change, general practice must actively contribute to the preservation of our environment and planetary health.

The RACGP’s Environmental sustainability in general practice resource supports Australian GPs and their practice teams to reduce their environmental footprint. The resource can be used by practices to become a more environmentally sustainable practice, as well as identify, reduce and manage the adverse health effects of climate change. This includes actions on reducing energy consumption, prescribing decisions and advocating on behalf of patients for effective climate change policy and action.

It provides information on:

  • climate change and its impacts on human health
  • the role of GPs and practice staff in addressing climate change and environmental sustainability
  • actions at an individual, practice and population level to minimise the carbon footprint (both clinical and non-clinical).

Resource

RACGP – Environmental sustainability in general practice

  1. [Accessed 17 May 2022].
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