Providence Center for Environmental Stewardship

About the Center

At Providence, we are called to care wisely for our people, our resources, and our earth. Further, Sisters of Providence that preceded us asked to be a model of good stewardship, so that we may demonstrate faithfulness to our values and that others may learn sound stewardship practices from us.

The Providence Center for Environmental Stewardship is a virtual platform that serves as a central site to share many aspects of Providence’s Environmental Stewardship initiative. This includes the three pillars of our environmental stewardship initiative - WE ACT (mitigation), We REACH (adaptation & resilience), and We SHARE (advocacy & leadership).

Visitors can access our resources and documents on the Tools & Resources page. This resource library will grow and develop each quarter, and we invite interested health systems to use the resources and reach out to us learn more. In service of helping to advance decarbonization, resilience, and environmental justice in healthcare, we hope that sharing our learnings will help other health organizations to make progress in their own environmental stewardship goals.

Our Commitment

Providence's vision statement is Health for a Better World. Ensuring a stable climate and healthy planet is a crucial element of our envisioned world. At Providence we are doing all we can do reduce our carbon emissions in this decade, working toward carbon negative by 2030.

Yet, this bold commitment goes beyond addressing carbon emissions. We are committed to building equitable, climate resilience in the communities we serve, focusing on social and racial justice. Further, we aim to ensure we can serve consistently even through extreme weather events and the changes we see in our environment.

The current crisis calls for us to act boldly, with compassion. We are doing so by helping to care for our common home, ensuring equity today, and passing a healthy planet to the generations of tomorrow.

View Providence's Climate Action Plan  View Providence's Climate Resilience Plan

“At Providence, we take on bold challenges. We are pushing ourselves to solve difficult problems, find innovative solutions and make evidence-based, data-driven decisions to reduce greenhouse gases and build climate resilience in the communities we serve—because our vision of health for a better world can only be reached if we care for our common home as well.”

– Erik Wexler, President and CEO, Providence