22/06/2026
Thank you for the selection for Narié Holistic©️from the Economist Enterprise , will be representing Narié Holistic©️
To be on this event in London , the event bringing together senior leaders in healthcare, public health, policy and the health workforce to examine how climate change is reshaping global health risks — and to identify practical ways health systems and employers can strengthen resilience while reducing their environmental impact.”
At Narié Holistic , we believe that:
Preventative medicine supports the climate–health–sustainability nexus by reducing disease burden (and therefore high‑carbon acute care), while simultaneously shifting behaviour, urban design, and food systems toward lower‑emission, healthier patterns.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️“At Narié, we focus on preventative, holistic care that keeps you well for longer while reducing the need for high‑impact hospital treatments and medicines, which also helps protect our shared environment.”
• Anchor in shared values: protection, preparedness, fairness for future generations, and caring for community and planet together.
This kind of values‑first framing makes climate and sustainability feel like a natural extension of caring for one’s own health, not a separate agenda.
⭐️Why prevention is a climate solution
• Healthcare is responsible for about 4–5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, largely from hospitals, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and energy use.[bmj
• Preventing chronic and acute disease reduces emergency visits, hospital admissions, surgery, and polypharmacy, all of which are resource‑ and carbon‑intensive.[pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih]
• Public health and primary prevention (vaccination, screening, risk‑factor modification) are generally far less carbon‑intensive per health gain than specialist and intensive care.[bmj]
An example often cited is cardiovascular risk reduction: improving diet, physical activity, and smoking cessation avoids decades of medication, admissions for MI or stroke, and complex interventions, significantly lowering both emissions and healthcare costs.[nih ]
Co‑benefit behaviours: healthier and lower‑carbon.
Preventative medicine programmes directly encourage behaviours that are intrinsically low‑carbon:
• Active travel prescriptions: Walking and cycling reduce cardiovascular risk and obesity while decreasing transport emissions and air pollution.[plos ].
• Dietary shifts: Clinicians advising plant‑forward diets for CVD, diabetes, and cancer prevention also reduce emissions, as red meat and dairy are major agricultural contributors to greenhouse gases.[who]
• Smoking and alcohol reduction: Cutting to***co and excess alcohol reduces disease burden and also reduces carbon and environmental impacts of production, distribution, and waste.[plos ]
These co‑benefits are now framed in policy as “health‑in‑all‑policies” or “climate‑smart healthcare,” emphasising that a single intervention can improve population health and reduce emissions simultaneously.
Decarbonising care through prevention
Preventative approaches change how and where care is delivered, enabling more sustainable service models:
• Shifting from hospital‑centric to community and primary care reduces high‑energy inpatient days and procedural interventions.
• Reducing low‑value care (unnecessary imaging, over‑prescribing, non‑beneficial procedures) lowers emissions from diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and supply chains without harming outcomes.[sciencedirect]
• Smarter prescribing (e.g. choosing dry‑powder inhalers over high‑GWP propellant MDIs where clinically appropriate) provides the same therapeutic benefit with a far smaller carbon footprint.[sciencedirect]
However, ethicists note a “paradox of prevention”: longer lives from effective prevention can increase lifetime emissions, including healthcare emissions in older age. This strengthens the case for system‑wide decarbonisation (energy, procurement, infrastructure) alongside prevention, rather than relying on prevention alone.[nih ]
Climate‑resilient, sustainable health systems
The climate–health nexus also runs the other way: prevention and public health are essential for adapting health systems to climate change.
• Climate change is driving heat‑related illness, vector‑borne disease, respiratory morbidity from air pollution, and mental health impacts, all of which increase demand on services.
• Preventative actions such as heat‑health plans, early warning systems, vaccination and surveillance for climate‑sensitive infections, and community education reduce climate‑related morbidity and mortality.
• Building climate‑resilient health systems (resilient infrastructure, diversified supply chains, robust primary care) is now recognised in global climate and health policy, including calls for NDCs to include explicit health commitments.
This resilience work is itself a sustainability strategy: protecting population health from climate shocks reduces the need for repeated emergency responses and reconstruction of services, with associated material and carbon costs.
Strategic implications for practice (especially holistic clinics)
For someone working at the intersection of clinical care and holistic/naturopathic practice, several leverage points stand out:
• Design programmes around “co‑benefit” lifestyles: movement, plant‑rich diets, smoking cessation, restorative sleep, and stress reduction aligned with low‑carbon living.
• Embed climate and sustainability education into preventative consultations, framing choices (e.g. diet, commuting, home energy) as simultaneously benefiting personal health and planetary health.
• Audit and reduce your own clinic’s footprint: energy efficiency, reduced single‑use products where safe, sustainable procurement, and virtual or hybrid consultations to cut travel.
• Align with emerging national frameworks on sustainable healthcare and climate‑resilient health systems, which increasingly recognise prevention and primary care as central.
