The ANZICS Sustainability Conference will be held on Tuesday 15 September 2020, with a theme ‘How Green is my ICU?’. The event topics will be related to the science of sustainability, impact of ICU greenhouse gas emissions, how to audit/measure climate impact of ICU’s, how to improve ICU sustainability.
The conference will be run in a digital format, and will be a mix of didactic lectures, paper presentations and interactive panel discussions.
Partial revenue from the event will be used to develop a Toolkit to help ICUs measure and manage their carbon footprint – guidelines to audit/ measure and manage impact of ICUs equipment, consumables, footprint of climate change/ sustainability for ICU that are already built and for new/ redevelopment of ICUs and comparison with peers.