Joint Green Plan 2025-28
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust and Stockport NHS Foundation Trust have produced a new Joint Green Plan.
The Joint Green Plan builds on the commitments made in the previous individual Green Plans and joins up thinking across both organisations, to share best practice and drive progress towards our net zero targets.
Read the Joint Green Plan Summary
Background
Climate change is the greatest global health threat of the 21st century, affecting individuals, communities, and healthcare systems. Globally, due to the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, temperatures have risen, and we have seen an increase in extreme weather events across the world.
More locally, across Greater Manchester we have experienced increased temperatures, flooding, wildfires and storms which have impacted the most vulnerable residents the hardest.
On 1 July 2022, the NHS became the first health system to embed net zero into legislation, through the Health and Care Act 2022. The Delivering a Net Zero National Health Service report was produced and issued as statutory guidance. The Delivering a ‘Net Zero’ National Health Service report sets out the following targets:
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For the emissions we control directly (the NHS Carbon Footprint), we will reach net zero by 2040, with an ambition to reach an 80% reduction by 2028 to 2032;
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For the emissions we can influence (our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus), we will reach net zero by 2045, with an ambition to reach an 80% reduction by 2036 to 2039.