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Greenhouse gas emissions: The carbon is coming from inside the hospital

The American healthcare sector produces an estimated 8.5% of the country’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and accounts for 25% of global health sector emissions—the highest proportion attributable to any individual country’s health sector, according to a 2021 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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