Cutting carbon, saving lives: Harnessing medtech innovation and competitiveness for healthcare decarbonisation

MedTech ON AIR

MedTech Europe

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Health drives our lives, from our personal well-being to the health of our planet and economy. On the road to UN Climate Change Conference COP30 in Belém (Brazil), taking place from 10-21 November 2025, we shine a critical spotlight on harnessing medical technology innovation for healthcare decarbonisation. In this episode of MedTech ON AIR, we are joined by Sigrid Linher, MedTech Europe’s Director for Sustainability and Environment, to discuss the recent MedTech Europe study report commissioned to Boston Consulting Group on “Decarbonising Healthcare: How a Competitive MedTech Industry Can Contribute”. The episode looks into what inspired MedTech Europe to launch this milestone project, highlighting the key findings from the study. More importantly, it explains why collaboration turns out to be the game-changer for building more sustainable and resilient healthcare systems. Listen in as we discuss where MedTech Europe heads from here and why staying the course is essential to fulfilling MedTech Europe’s core mission to make innovative medical technology available to more people, while helping healthcare systems move towards a more sustainable path.

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0:00.0	Welcome to MetTech on Air, your window into the world of medical technologies.
0:10.0	This is a podcast by MetTech Europe, which is the European Trade Association for the
0:17.0	medical technology industry.
0:19.0	My name is Dominica Suhojanova. I'm a communications manager at MetTech Europe
0:23.6	and I was looking forward to hosting today's episode
0:27.6	because we are going to speak about a critical connection
0:32.6	between healthcare and sustainability.
0:35.6	We know that health drives our lives. from our personal well-being to the health of our planet and also economy.
0:46.3	And Europe has set a very ambitious framework on how to mitigate the impact of climate change on our lives.
0:57.0	And we are going to explore further this topic with Sigrid Liner,
1:01.7	who is the Director for Sustainability and Environment at MetTech Europe.
1:07.0	Sigrid, welcome to the podcast. We are very pleased to have you with us today.
1:12.6	The pleasure to be here, Dominica.
1:13.9	Thank you for the invitation.
1:15.8	And let's start by talking about a very important milestone of our work towards a net zero industry strategy.
1:26.5	Some time ago, Metta Europe launched a study project,
1:31.3	which was commissioned to our partners at Boston Consulting Group,
1:36.3	on decarbonizing healthcare, how a competitive METTEC industry can contribute.
1:48.8	Can you briefly explain to us why this project was launched and what the main goal was? Sure. Metac's starting point for the project has been straightforward.
1:57.6	Healthcare and sustainability are no longer parallel conversations. They are deeply intertwined.
2:04.0	Innovating for human health and planetary health have turned into two sides of the same coin.
2:10.3	So if we decarbonize healthcare, it's not about reducing numbers on an emission chart.
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