Resources
Browse our library of guides, case studies and resources. Developed with our members across industry, the NHS and academia, they share practical tools, methods and real-world learning on sustainable patient care pathways, clinical trials and more.
Whether you're just starting to explore healthcare sustainability or looking to measure and reduce emissions in your own work, you'll find resources here to support you - search below:
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The Environmental Sustainability Gap in Clinical Trials: Workforce Attitudes, Barriers, and Emerging Practice from an International Survey
October 2026 This report presents the findings of our BIG Clinical Trials Sustainability Survey. The survey gathered 181 responses from...
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Systematic, contextual, and individual influences drive trialists’ behaviour relating to greener trial design and delivery – A qualitative study
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | Oct 2026 | To identify the key behavioural determinants that influence how people working in...
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Carbon footprint of clinical research: a systematic review and quantitative synthesis of estimates, sources of variation and emission hotspots
BMJ | Oct 2026 | Nekouei Shahraki M, Van Bodegraven L, De Haes F, et alCarbon footprint of clinical research:...
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6 things you can do to reduce the environmental impact of clinical research trials
Imperial | Sept 2026 "Clinical research trials are an essential way to advance medicine and develop treatments that can help...
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Carbon Calculators for Healthcare
The growing demand for carbon accounting has driven a proliferation of carbon calculators enabling organisations to calculate their overall carbon...
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Sustainable Clinical Trials by Design
July 2026 | A structured, repeatable approach to measuring the carbon footprint of clinical trials
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Minimising waste in clinical trials
July 2026 | Protocol-level decisions have the greatest leverage on the volume of consumables, samples, and packaging a trial goes...
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Assessing carbon emissions of clinical trials
July 2026 | A structured, repeatable approach to measuring the carbon footprint of clinical trials
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Decarbonising Clinical Trials at Novartis
Novartis has embedded environmental sustainability across the clinical trial lifecycle, from protocol design through to close-out. This case study explains...
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Minimise patient & staff travel in clinical trials
July 2026 | Every visit a trial requires is also a journey with a carbon cost. Redesigning where and how...
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Sustainable Healthcare Coalition Launches Version 3 of the Clinical Trial Carbon Calculator
May 2026 Significant update to the free-to-use calculator delivers multi-trial analysis capability and deeper country-level modelling, enabling sponsors and researchers...
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Decarbonizing clinical trials: Where sustainability meets operational excellence
ERM Blog released on 11th May.
