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Green Management initiatives in the Healthcare Sector are a subject which is acquiring more and more consideration by healthcare professionals, public authorities and donor agencies. The healthcare sector and especially hospitals account for a massive, but often neglected or even ignored impact on the environment and face high costs for use of energy, water and disposal of material In a recent paper (Healthy Hospitals Healthy Planet Healthy People. Addressing climate change in health care settings WHO 2008), the World Health Organization (WHO) stated: “We know that climate change has the capacity to produce severe consequences for human health. We also know that the health sector can play a pivotal role in helping nations across the globe adapt to these serious consequences.