Desflurane gas has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide, NHS data suggests.
Scotland has become the first country in the world to stop its hospitals using the anaesthetic desflurane because of the threat it poses to the environment.
Banning it in Scotland - from its peak use in 2017 - would cut emissions equal to powering 1,700 homes a year.In the last few years, more than 40 hospital trusts in England and a number of hospitals in Wales have stopped using it.from 2024, which - like Scotland - prohibits its use for anything but exceptional circumstances.
"I realised in 2017 that the amount of desflurane we used in a typical day's work as an anaesthetist resulted in emissions equivalent to me driving 670 miles that day," he said."When you are faced with something as obvious as this and with the significance it has to the environment - I am very glad we have got to this stage."
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