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Strategic Planning for Planetary Health and Sustainable Care
This playbook identifies practices for incorporating climate change considerations and planetary health into organizational strategic plans to support the transition to sustainable, equitable health systems.
Playbook
Readiness Assessment Tool Online Form
Guided by CASCADES’ playbook “Strategic Planning for Planetary Health and Sustainable Care” this tool provides seven organizational practices to guide and advance strategic planning for sustainable healthcare. This tool is not a scorecard; it is a reflective guide to support dialogue, alignment, and strategic decision-making within leadership structures to advances strategic planning for planetary health and sustainable care. After completing the assessment, you will receive a summary report of your responses by email.
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Engage board and senior leaders
This webinar in the Leadership and strategy for sustainable health systems series is the first of seven events highlighting seven organizational practices to advance strategic planning for sustainable healthcare. These practices are presented in the upcoming CASCADES playbook Strategic Planning for Sustainable Healthcare. The series is organized in partnership with the with the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business/Centre for Climate and Business Solutions, the Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, Dalhousie University Faculty of Management, and other university partners.
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Align your efforts: Embedding sustainability into your organization’s strategic framework
This webinar in the Leadership and strategy for sustainable health systems series is the second of seven events highlighting seven organizational practices to advance strategic planning for sustainable healthcare. These practices are presented in the upcoming CASCADES playbook Strategic Planning for Sustainable Healthcare. The series is organized in partnership with the with the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business/Centre for Climate and Business Solutions, the Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, Dalhousie University Faculty of Management, and other university partners
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Organizational strategic planning and roadmap development for sustainable health systems
This webinar explores how Fraser Health, Interior Health, and Vancouver Coastal Health developed Planetary Health strategies to support climate-resilient, sustainable, and low-carbon health systems between 2023 and 2024. It features authors of a new CASCADES resource, including Karen Reutlinger, Amanda McKenzie, Kady Hunter, and Breanna Gregory, who discuss governance, leadership, strategic alignment, measurement, and key lessons for organizations developing similar sustainability strategies.
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Setting a course for sustainable healthcare: Strategic planning and roadmap development
This webinar explores how climate change and environmental degradation pose growing risks to health systems, while healthcare itself contributes significantly to carbon emissions, resource use, and pollution. It features teams from Interior Health, Vancouver Coastal Health, and Fraser Health, who share their Climate Change and Sustainability Roadmap and Planetary Health strategies, including how these plans were developed and integrated into organizational decision-making.
Webinar
Guide to drafting a Terms of Reference
This is an example of a Terms of Reference for a working group, task force, community of practice, or similar network. The categories suggested here can be merged or grouped in different ways and not all are relevant to all groups. It is best to use this guide as a heuristic rather than as a template.
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Organizational Readiness for Sustainability Infographic
The Organizational Readiness Playbook compiles resources to answer these questions, so that organizations can move forward strategically. It provides a framework for completing a high-level readiness assessment & identifies priority areas of focus & opportunities to increase the visibility & impact of sustainability efforts.
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Organizational Readiness for Sustainability
This playbook provides background information and implementation resources designed to address environmental sustainability in organizational readiness.
Playbook
Organizational strategic planning and roadmap development for sustainable health systems in British Columbia, Canada
Between 2023-2024, three British Columbia Health Authorities—Fraser Health, Interior Health, and Vancouver Coastal Health—developed Planetary Health organizational strategies, with the aim to guide and inform each organization’s efforts and priorities in creating a climateresilient, sustainable and low-carbon health system.
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