ZGF Signs HHS Health Sector Climate Pledge

ZGF has joined the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Sector Climate Pledge, standing with leading healthcare organizations in recognizing and rising to the challenge of climate change. Specifically, all Health Sector Climate Pledge signatories commit to:

• Reduce their organization’s emissions by 50% by 2030 and to net zero by 2050 and publicly report on progress
• Complete an inventory of scope 3 emissions
• Develop climate resilience plans for their facilities and communities

The healthcare sector contributes to climate change, accounting for approximately 8.5% of U.S. domestic emissions. ZGF will leverage decades of designing healthcare environments to support and enable clients, including many of the Pledge’s signatories, to make significant strides to reduce operational emissions and build resilient infrastructure, ensuring benefits to patients, staff and surrounding communities.

As a firm, ZGF committed in 2019 to track and reduce by 55% all scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions within its organization, using lifecycle assessment methodology to account for scope 3 emissions whenever possible. ZGF is also a signatory of the AIA 2030 Commitment, AIA Materials Pledge and 2030 Challenge for Embodied Carbon.