Template of a climate sustainability plan for medical professional organizations: the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology example

Environmental change is underway and has the potential to adversely affect digestive health. Professional medical organizations have an important role to play in addressing the challenge. An important initial response is the development of a sustainability plan for the medical organization. There are no standardized criteria as to what should be included in such a plan. We have proposed 12 key components that should be contained in sustainability plans for medical organizations. We describe how these were developed for the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG) and plans for future implementation. We hope that the CAG plan may serve as a template to assist peer medical organizations optimize their response to the climate crisis.