HSE Climate Action Strategy 2023 – 2050

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🔬研究者:Healthcare decarbonization case study for sectoral transition pathways.

🏢実務担当者:Provides actionable measures for sustainability teams in large healthcare organizations.

🏛政策担当者:Illustrates how to embed climate goals into public health system governance.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) recognises that it has a significant role to play in tackling the climate crisis by dealing with the growing health impacts of climate change and curbing its own emissions. The healthcare sector is a notable contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (est. 5- 15%)1,2 and one of the sectors at the forefront of supporting human health adapt to the impacts of climate change. As Ireland’s largest Public Body with a core objective to “use the resources available to it…to improve, promote and protect the health and welfare of the public”,3 we have a duty to address climate change. This can be achieved by building and further focusing on reducing our carbon emissions, promoting low-carbon and sustainable solutions which limit pollution, helping to reverse biodiversity loss, and supporting, and protecting the health and wellbeing of future generations which includes adapting to the impacts of climate change. This Climate Action Strategy outlines our ambitions, actions, and goals to accelerate change. It addresses our mandated priorities in the Government's Climate Action Plan focused on energy efficiency. However, it also looks to move beyond this, by showing leadership and commitment to integrate sustainable actions and principles across areas such as buildings, green space development, transport, greener models of healthcare, procurement and more. Sustainability considerations will be core to our future decisions and embedded into our everyday ways of working and culture.

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