“Hospitals and health systems from most every Clean Energy Ministerial country are participating in Health Care Without Harm’s 2020 Health Care Climate Challenge, demonstrating innovative ways to create low carbon health care that can be scaled across national systems,” said Sister Susan Vickers, Vice President of Community Health for Dignity Health (2020 Challenge participant), in her dinner address at the seventh Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM7).

This annual meeting of energy ministers and other high-level delegates from the 23 CEM member countries and the European Commission is an opportunity for the major economies to collaborate on solutions that advance clean energy globally and demonstrate tangible follow-up actions to COP21.

“We urge you to continue to be bold in addressing climate change, which we believe is the most pressing public health issue of our time,” said Susan Vickers.

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Sister Susan Vickers of Dignity Health addresses ministers of energy from more than 20 countries at the Clean Energy Ministerial in San Francisco.