Introduction

While environmental sustainability has become an area of growing global awareness and concern, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused great disruption to countries and societies around the world over the last few years. Recently, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) reported [1] that the Asia-Pacific region is falling behind on the 2030 sustainability targets. It now appears that these targets will not be reachable until 2065 [2] -- for us in laboratory medicine, there is an increasing need to re-energise our efforts, do more and move beyond “business as usual” to improve our environmental sustainability.