[Sustainable drug prescription: shared perspectives between physicians and pharmacists]

Health services have a significant carbon footprint on the environment, of which about 20 % come from drug prescriptions. For a sustainable health system, it is important to assess the environmental footprint of drugs and promote sustainable drug manufacturing, prescription, dispensing and use that limit carbon emissions and drug wastage. All, governments, pharmaceutical industry, health professionals and patients, must share this responsibility. This article gives practical recommendations for each of these protagonists to promote sustainable drug prescription.