Climate Stewardship in the Clinical Setting

Pediatric clinicians have the potential to exert a large influence on health care sustainability for children and families as part of broader system transformation to promote sustainable practices. As a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, health care systems and providers have a responsibility to reduce emissions that negatively affect children's health. All pediatric clinicians should understand ways that we can mitigate health care impacts on our environment and should actively contribute to solutions in everyday practice through conversations with patients, trainees, and colleagues; and advocacy for institution-level, system-level, community-level, and global-level change.