Our 2024-2026 Decarbonisation and Sustainability Plan has been developed internally by the
Decarbonisation Action Group, informed by ongoing work on decarbonisation, actions and learning from the process of developing and implementing our current plan and involvement and collaboration from groups and staff across the organisation such as our Decarbonisation, Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Collaborative , Green Advocates and Foundational Economy Group. We have also drawn on learning from colleagues in other health boards and organisations which has helped shape our plan.
We are committed to the Sustainable Development principle of the WFG Act and ensure that our decisions consider the impact it could have on staff, our workforce and people living in Wales now and in the future.
We seek to fully embrace the Five Ways of Working to help us work better, avoid repeating past mistakesand address the long-term challenges we are facing. We will incorporate this approach in the planning and implementation stage and help us evaluate the impact the plan.
We recognise our contributions towards achieving the 7 Well-being goals of the WFG Act and we plan to capture case studies to demonstrate how our actions support all of the goals and applying the Sustainable Development Principles.
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Activity Stream 1 Carbon Management |
Activity Stream 2 Buildings and our Estate |
Activity Stream 3 Transport and Travel |
Activity Stream 4 Procurement |
Activity Stream 5 Approaches to delivering our services |
Our plan is split into five different activity streams and sets out the action that will be taken to reduce our carbon footprint and also work that is being undertaken to support our foundational and economy agendas.
The tables include colour intensity status to help the organisation understand the impact the work will have to reduce our carbon footprint and to support decision making and prioritisation. To calculate this, we have reviewed the potential impact of each action for reduction of carbon emission and assigned shades of colour increasing from low to high. This is a subjective assessment, which we hope to refine over time to more accurately measure impact of actions. We have also identified where actions link to the foundational and circular economy agendas for Public Health Wales for each of the actions.
Next steps: 2024-2026 - We are building on the work and governance arrangement developed as part of the first Decarbonisation Action Plan, learning from what has worked to date to reduce our carbon footprint, integrating principles of circular and foundational economy into our plans.
Making progress: 2026 - We are on course to contribute and support the collective net zero NHS Wales
target. The impact we are making on the environment is considered in everything we do and consistent
methodologies for calculating our carbon footprint are embedded in our decision making.
Realising net zero: 2030 - We have met our net zero goal and we are on track to be a carbon negative
organisation by 2035 as detailed within the Public Health Wales Long Term Strategy.