The study is part of SEforALL’s the climate benefits of healthcare facility investments ongoing engagement with governments, funders, and and the opportunity and challenges posed by climate the private sector to increase investment in powering healthcare as part of its wider commitment to tackling finance. [...] the ‘adaptation’ the scale and nature of these climate benefits to potential): understand the relevance of climate finance for Energy consumption: The energy needs of healthcare healthcare facilities facilities in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa vary depending on their size, the services they deliver, their 21 Baseline situation cooling and heating requirements, etc. [...] The maximum The energy and emissions footprints of healthcare daily supply of electricity required for a health post, facilities, and their level of vulnerability to the impacts of subcentre or clinic that is the first point of care for community is 1.9–4.5 kWh, for a PHC with 5 to 10 beds climate change, varies significantly between and within is 10–18.4 kWh and for a secondary healthcare facilit. [...] Climate-resilient buildings: This includes Able to withstand the impacts of extreme Many of the same measures can make ensuring the siting of healthcare facilities weather events, which are projected the building more resilient and reduce and the design and construction methods to increase in the future. [...] 11 THE CLIMATE RATIONALE OF POWERING HEALTHCARE CLIMATE FINANCE FOR POWERING HEALTHCARE Quantification of mitigation benefits for stand- modelling is therefore an effort to estimate the alone solar PV systems on healthcare facilities: costs and benefits of a direct switch from the current There are a variety of facility-specific variables that use of diesel/petrol generators to a future use of a d.
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