The report Delivering a Net Zero Health Service sets a clear ambition and target for the NHS. It describes the considerable advances that the NHS has already made in responding to climate change, and lays out the direction, scale, and pace of change needed as we move forward.
“While the NHS is already a world leader in sustainability, as the biggest employer in this country and comprising nearly a tenth of the UK economy, we’re both part of the problem and part of the solution.
“Indeed if health services across the world were their own country, they’d be the fifth-largest emitter on the planet.
“That’s why we are mobilising our 1.3 million staff to take action for a greener NHS, and it’s why we have worked with the world’s leading experts to help set a practical, evidence-based and ambitious route map and date for the NHS to reach net zero.”
Sir Simon Stevens, NHS Chief Executive.
World Health Organisation Director General backs NHS’s leadership as the world’s largest single health system. The NHS has today adopted a multiyear plan to become the world’s first carbon net zero national health system. The commitment comes amid growing evidence of the health impacts of climate change and air pollution, and aims to save thousands […]
