Greater Cochlear Damage in Otogenic Versus Meningogenic Meningitis: Hearing Rehabilitation Implications.

To help avert the threat of climate change, there is a need to decarbonise many sectors and institutions, including healthcare systems. Indeed, numerous healthcare systems globally are committing to reduce their environmental impact []. When reducing healthcare greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, one important question is who are the duty‐bearers in healthcare's response to climate change? Who are the ‘agents of justice’, responsible for achieving climate justice in healthcare? []. In this paper, I assume that healthcare GHG emissions contribute to injustice and that a net zero healthcare system represents part of healthcare systems achieving climate justice. Healthcare GHG emissions contribute to the threats of climate change []. Furthermore, most healthcare GHG emissions come from wealthy countries with technologically advanced healthcare systems, while the greatest effects of climate change are felt by those who contribute the least and are the least equipped to deal with the effects of climate change []. At the very least, healthcare must mitigate its GHG emissions to remedy this injustice. Net zero has become a powerful organising framework for policy responses to climate change across society and many healthcare systems have committed to net zero [, , ]. Some healthcare systems have also outlined plans on how to become net zero []. Hence, we have a better, though not complete, idea of what a decarbonised healthcare system looks like under net zero compared to other potential climate targets. Nevertheless, my arguments regarding the agents of justice should be compatible with alternative targets for achieving climate justice in healthcare, even if I discuss net zero here [].