Health & Climate Resilience Programme
Supporting NHS Primary Care and VCSE across Cornwall and Isles of Scilly for health creation, climate and nature.
How we can help
We are a passionate bunch that like to bring people together to discuss the links between planetary health and human health, join the dots between our various roles, and then collaborate to make things happen to build health creation.
The 15 climate actions
Here are 15 ways to start making a difference to planetary health and human health…
Resources
This free to use resource library is continuously growing, so please visit often and use the search facility to explore topic areas. If you have a resource to share, or can’t find what you need, please contact us.
Health Creation
Our climate is changing.
These changes are impacting our buildings, our infrastructure, our supply chains, our energy and water supplies, our food production, but most importantly, our changing climate affects our health.
Unfortunately, the provision of healthcare is part of the problem, using up precious finite natural resources, creating excess waste, contributing to air pollution and emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The NHS 10 Year Plan, supported by Greener NHS has set a strategic objective to achieve net zero by 2040 to begin to tackle these key issues.
There are three key areas we need to focus on
- Reducing our environmental impacts across primary care, so we are contributing to the solution, not the cause of the problem.
- Adapting to our changing climate, so our buildings and our patients can cope during extreme weather events.
- Leading by example in health creation to reduce preventable disease, improve the health of our people and communities, and reduce the demand for carbon intensive healthcare.
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