Resource Round-up: Environmental sustainability
Pharmacists are well-positioned to act as environmental stewards and help mitigate the environmental harms associated with our health-care system. Here’s a round-up of some helpful resources to support you in promoting environmental sustainability in your pharmacy and with your patients and colleagues.
CPhA resources
Environmental sustainability
- Sustainable Blood Glucose Monitoring practice tools and resources
- Climate Conscious Recommendations for Pharmacists (CPhA, CSHP, Choosing Wisely Canada)
- Seeing Through Green: Critical Thinking for Sustainable Pharmacy Practices webinar recording
- Climate Change and Pharmacy Practice webinar recording
Inhalers and the Environment
- Inhaler Device Assessment Form
- Patient Handout
- Pharmacy Cheatsheet
- Physician Handout
- Pharmacy Poster
- Mobilization of MDI to DPI Therapeutic Interchange webinar recording
Natural disaster preparedness
- Pharmacist checklist: Supporting displaced patients during a natural disaster checklist
- Medication coverage in emergency situations practice resource
- Ensuring Continuity of Care During and After Emergencies and Natural Disasters practice resource
- Top Considerations for Pharmacy Managers: Managing Emergency Pharmacy Closures practice resource
- Top Considerations for your Pharmacy: Planning for an Emergency Pharmacy Closure practice resource
- Heat and Medication infographic
- Wildfires infographic
- Medication Checklist and Grab & Go Medication Bag patient checklist
Pharmacy resources
- Inhaler Conversation Aids: A shared decision-making tool allowing patients and health-care practitioners to easily compare inhaler devices by carbon footprint and cost
- Navigating Drug Shortages: Climate Resilience and Operational Innovation in Pharmacy: A webinar on how pharmacists are working to mitigate drug shortages through innovative, collaborative and climate-conscious approaches
- Sustainable Inhaler Alternatives: Cost and Coverage Comparison by Province
- An Evidence-Based Toolkit for Clinicians and Office Managers on making eco-friendly improvements to your workplace
Patient resources
- Correct Inhaler Technique: How to get the most out of your inhaler and prevent aerosol release
- Canada Health Product Stewardship Association: Overview of medication return programs in Canada
- Choosing Wisely Canada Patient Resources: A series of pamphlets for patients that encourage conversations about the pros and cons of tests and treatments
General information sources
- Canadian Association of Pharmacy for the Environment (CAPhE)
- Deprescribing.org
- MedStopper
- Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network
- CASCADES
Pharmacist Q&As
Many pharmacists across Canada are working hard to reduce pharmacy’s impact on the environment. Get to know a few of them:
Our Resource Round-up series gathers available resources and practice tools on important health topics to help you in your practice. This is not an exhaustive list of available resources on environmental sustainability. Something missing? If you have information, tools or resources you think we should include, please let us know at practicedevelopment@pharmacists.ca.
Last updated on November 5, 2026