Clinical Trial Environmental Impact

Project Charter

The Clinical Trial Environmental Impact project wishes to develop a framework to assess  the carbon footprint of a clinical trial.

Challenge

Reducing the environmental impact of life sciences is crucial due to increasing pressure from patients, healthcare payers, and governments. Emerging legislation is expected to mandate that pharmaceutical and contract research organizations measure and report on their environmental footprint.

Solution

The Pistoia Alliance has identified an immediate opportunity in assessing the environmental impact of clinical trials. Despite being a visible area, the carbon footprint of these trials is rarely evaluated.
 
The framework and tool have been developed by a collaboration of health system stakeholders, including members of the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition, Pistoia Alliance and the Sustainable Markets Initiative Health Systems Task Force, and publicly-funded clinical trials units within the industry Low Carbon Clinical Trials community (iLLCT). Such collaborative approaches are key to accelerating action on sustainability across the many actors that control, influence or have an interest in driving healthcare sustainability.
 
To know more about the iLCCT community visit the Sustainable Healthcare clinical trials framework.

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2025

Sustainability 2025

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The healthcare sector contributes approximately 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Clinical trials are a significant part of this, read more about how industry is approaching the sustainability challenge.

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