{"id":48714,"date":"2020-10-01T17:26:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=48714"},"modified":"2020-10-06T10:25:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T09:25:23","slug":"nicky-philpott-how-do-we-achieve-net-zero-for-emissions-in-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/10\/01\/nicky-philpott-how-do-we-achieve-net-zero-for-emissions-in-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicky Philpott:\u00a0Ending the NHS&#8217;s contribution to the climate emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I met a climate refugee the other day<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">woman who had lost her home in the wildfires in California. She was forced to leave her community because she could no longer breathe. And even though I spend much of my day thinking about the impact of the climate emergency on our health and our planet, this conversation shocked me. Perhaps because she was in fact lucky. She had resources to enable her to flee, a place to go to, welcoming friends and family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With all of the \u201cimmediate\u201d issues that we\u2019re each currently dealing with, exacerbated by the covid-19 crisis, it\u2019s sometimes uncomfortable, on top of all of that, to think about the stark impact that we as humans are having on our planet. It is a devastating impact. It\u2019s both close to home and far away. And it is unavoidable. We must deal with it, with planned changes<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> such as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rapid and planned decarbonisation. Only that will secure our health and wellbeing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public opinion is shifting despite the other challenges we face. A recent poll of those chosen for the UK\u2019s climate assembly (a representative sample of the population) showed that 79% support the idea of post-covid economic recovery measures which also curb carbon emissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Institutions are responding too. Today the UK\u2019s largest public sector employer, and largest public sector emitter, NHS England has shown how seriously it takes the threat of climate change, by announcing an ambition to reach net zero by 2045.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In anticipation of today&#8217;s announcement, I re-read \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/noharm-uscanada.org\/content\/global\/health-care-climate-footprint-report\">Health Care\u2019s Climate Footprint<\/a>\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which tells it straight: \u201cif the health sector were a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter on the planet.\u201d So even as healthcare is saving lives and alleviating suffering, it is contributing to the problem and increasing its own burden by driving climate change and environmental degradation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unprecedented is a word that has perhaps been overused in the last few months, but the announcement today is unprecedented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NHS England is the first national health system to announce its ambition to get to net zero<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">totally<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by 2045, and with significant, rapid reductions along the way. This is something to rejoice in, and a fantastic example to set in the year before the UK will host the COP26 international climate conference in Glasgow. There, five years after the Paris agreement, the world will compare the plans each of our countries have made to get to next zero by 2050<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">we will scrutinize them, expecting leadership, and high ambition. This will sit very nicely on this world stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is something that all organisations, and institutions should be doing. And if they didn\u2019t think so before, perhaps they will think twice now. Day after day we hear similar announcements, and similar warnings, but I believe that this one will have a wider influence. People have always listened to health professionals, and if anything, the public appreciate the importance of what they have to say now more than ever<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in an age when people have not only become aware of the role of the Chief Medical Officer, but would probably recognise him walking down the street<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ith a mask on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our members are sending the same message; most have divested, many have declared a climate emergency. And now, following NHS England\u2019s lead, we will work together to make practical changes. To do so we\u2019ll need to open up conversations in different specialisms, what does net zero gastroenterology look like? Nephrology? Psychiatry? Paediatrics? What does this look like in primary care and social care?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a lot of questions to answer and some of them can only be answered by health professionals. We hope to work with those already willing, and to encourage those who are not. Because everything will change, we just need to work together and work out how.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Nicky Philpott\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>is Director of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The BMJ is a member of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change. To hear more from the Alliance follow them on Twitter <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKHealthClimate\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@UKHealthClimate<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Competing interest<\/strong>: Nicky Philpott and the Alliance Secretariat are officially employees of the BMJ.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a climate refugee the other day\u2014a woman who had lost her home in the wildfires in California. 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