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Cornwall is first NHS region to set 2030 net-zero target
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly's sustainability and transformation partnership (STP) has outlined a 2030 net-zero target, in what is believed to be a UK first.
Under the arrangement all of the involved organisations will work together to create a system-wide environment plan, headlined by a target to deliver net-zero operational carbon emissions by the end of the decade. This will take approximately six months to implement, with the University of Exeter involved to produce a ‘baseline carbon calculation’ for the NHS organisations, and action plans for reducing carbon in ‘hotspots’.
The STP will appoint managers from each organisation to a system-wide sustainability board, as well as appointing executive, non-executive and clinical leads on climate change by the Summer. Additionally, all NHS organisations in the STP will be required to assess such risks and add them to their registers to ensure that wider physical climate risks and transition risks are factored into financial and business decisions.
According to the STP, 2030 is the most ambitious net-zero deadline set by any NHS region to date. Some smaller NHS entities have 2030 deadlines, but no other regions in their entirety. Cornwall Council has already developed a plan for achieving net-zero emissions by 2030 having established a Climate Emergency last year.
The STP includes Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Plymouth Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust; South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust; Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Kernow Health Community Interest Company (CIC), as well as Cornwall Council and the Council of the Isles of Scilly.
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