Decarbonizing Healthcare and Life Sciences
4.4%
Healthcare makes up 4.4% of global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions each year
Source: Healthcare Without Harm
250,000
Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress alone.
Source: World Health Organization
15%
While digital technologies account for around 1.4% of global carbon emissions, they can also reduce global emissions by around 15% by 2030
Source: World Economic Forum
Consultancy and digital solutions
Human health is profoundly impacted by the climate emergency with Healthcare and Life Sciences having the leading roles in the reaction to this. Climate action is urgent and digital technology needs to be leveraged to achieve decarbonization targets. It is our collective responsibility to deliver on decarbonization ambitions to enable a sustainable future for our environment and people.
A pioneer in decarbonization services and products, Atos helps healthcare & life sciences organizations to drive experience and outcomes for patients through digital channels, putting the patients at the heart of managing their own care as well as driving net-zero. Atos has strengthened its decarbonized digital solution portfolio and expertise with highly specialized skills from EcoAct, an internationally recognized climate strategy consulting firm which is part of the Atos group. Read press release.
Innovative approaches toward net-zero
New focus beyond IT
Determine strategy
Measurement & SBT ambition setting
Risk & opportunity analysis
Data Management Assessments
Atos Carbon Reduction and Feasibility Tool (CRaFT©)
Decarbonized focus on IT
Reduce IT footprint
Utilizing HPC, IoT, Edge & Quantum Computing
Sustainable Cloud Computing
Intelligent Collaboration
Decarbonization Level Agreements (DLA)
Net-zero industry focus
Reduce business impact
Pharma Digital Twins
Smart Hospitals
Virtual Care & Remote Monitoring
Smart Clinical Trials
Predictive Maintenance
Sustainable Supply Chain
Net-zero Digital Manufacturing
Residuals addressed
Offsetting
Offsetting residual emissions
Project Development
Nature-based solutions
Atos solutions to net-zero for healthcare & life sciences
Tackle climate challenges to deliver differentiation in population wellbeing
We offer business advisory to help you begin and enhance your net-zero journey. We help you map out a clear strategy to gain reputational and competitive advantage in delivering quality healthcare to improve wellbeing through tackling climate change.
Accelerate your journey to net-zero digital emissions in healthcare & life sciences
We offer digital green advisory and platforms to help you progress toward net-zero digital emissions for your digital estate. Our Decarbonization Level Agreements (DLAs) are our contractual commitment to deliver reductions to your digital footprint.
Tackle climate challenges to deliver valuable change
Carbon offsetting projects can help organizations to take responsibility for their existing emissions while working to reduce them. Your offsetting initiatives can tackle climate change, counteract deforestation and deliver equitable sustainable development.
Sustainable Healthcare
When sustainability becomes a success factor in healthcare, realizing sustainability from a clinical, operational, and business perspective becomes value-based care. Read about how Atos is helping healthcare providers carry out the collective responsibility of caring for patients, employees and the environment.
Energy efficient computing for Life Sciences R&D
We offer life sciences organizations greener High Performance Computing (HPC) harmonizing performance & energy consumption. In addition, our Healthcare & Life Sciences Centre of Excellence, located at the Wellcome Genome Campus, home to some of the world’s foremost institutes in genomics and computational biology. is an initiative to bring leading edge technologies closer to life sciences projects with the goal of discovering fresh, innovative solutions.
Net-zero insights for healthcare and life sciences
The Climate Reporting and Performance of the CAC, DAX, DOW, FTSE, FTSE MIB and IBEX.
Welcome to the 12th edition of the annual Climate Reporting and Performance Research, a study that examines how some of the largest companies in the world are acting and reporting on climate change.
Find out how biopharmaceutical companies define their path to net zero and disclose their progress in tackling climate-related sustainability.
EcoAct’s prescription for net-zero biopharma
EcoAct’s recent study found that a quarter of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are not yet prepared to mitigate risks or understand the opportunities of the low-carbon transition.
Podcast
Join us in our latest podcast episode as we delve into the world of sustainable pharma! We invited two decarbonization experts, Lauren Sugden and Rylan Urban, to provide actionable solutions for overcoming challenges pharmaceutical companies face in achieving net zero, with a sharp focus on Supply Chain issues and Climate Risk Reporting difficulties.
Podcast
Climate change is both a threat and an opportunity for already overstretched healthcare systems. By adopting a holistic and responsible approach to health management, by reducing emissions, and protecting individuals’ health before they even need care, the whole of society will benefit.
Podcast
Listen to how net-zero initiatives are crucial for the Healthcare & Life Sciences industry and how they can help align your organization with the regulations and the changing investor and customer preferences.
Report
The Digital Future of Healthcare – technology has now advanced to a level where healthcare organizations can do things smarter and faster than ever before. The benefits are considerable, as are the challenges, but digital transformation is not the only answer.
Related resources
Achieve net-zero with Atos
What does net-zero mean?
Getting started
A to Zero: Guiding your organization on its journey to net zero
Standards
Footprinting standards – A guide to carbon footprints
Reporting Frameworks
The Big eBook of Sustainability Reporting Frameworks 2022
Healthcare & Life Sciences Offerings
Explore our portfolio offerings of Healthcare & Life Sciences, Decarbonization and Cybersecurity on see how we can help you accelerate value creation to save lives and for the wellbeing of the population.
Thought leadership
Read our global opinion paper Digital Vision: COP26 – Accelerating to net-zero and beyond, and follow the Atos Journey thought leadership report, our vision for the evolving world of Business, Society and Technology, and the case studies on digitally-enabled precision healthcare.
Atos Scaler startup accelerator
Circular Computing – Offers carbon neutral remanufactured HP, Dell and Lenovo laptops, creating a more ethical, sustainable and socially responsible way to buy enterprise grade IT
Talks to our experts
Sylvain Goblet
Global Head of Consulting and Marketing, Healthcare & Life Sciences
Lauren Sugden
Decarbonization Lead, Healthcare & Life Sciences
Harbir Sawhney
Global Portfolio Head, Life Sciences