1. Energy Efficiency
   Reduce hospital energy consumption and costs through efficiency and conservation measures.
2. Green Building Design
   Build hospitals that are responsive to local climate conditions and optimized for reduced energy and resource demands.
3. Alternative Energy Generation
   Produce and/or consume clean, renewable energy onsite to ensure reliable and resilient operation.
4. Transportation
   Use alternative fuels for hospital vehicle fleets; encourage walking and cycling to the facility; promote staff, patient and community use of public transport; site health-care buildings to minimize the need for staff and patient transportation.
5. Food
   Provide sustainably grown local food for staff and patients.
6. Waste
   Reduce, re-use, recycle, compost; employ alternatives to waste incineration.
7. Water
   Conserve water; avoid bottled water when safe alternatives exist.

Healthy Hospitals — Healthy Planet — Healthy People
Addressing climate change in health care settings
A discussion draft paper published by the World Health Organization and Health Care Without Harm