Net zero

IHPN and ABI unite to support independent health sector progress in achieving “net zero”

20/11/2024

IHPN and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) have joined forced to support the independent health sector to better demonstrate the progress being made in achieving net zero carbon emissions.

Looking ahead in light of COP29

19/11/2024

IHPN is the membership association for independent healthcare providers and for the past three years we have been actively supporting our members in their own efforts towards net zero. It is increasingly becoming clearer that although speed is of the essence it is not important who is first across the line but rather how quickly we can support everyone to finish.

Not much COP?

20/12/2023

As COP28 has now drawn to a close, Charlie Boyd reflects on the major developments and the implications for healthcare.

What we'd like to see from COP28

04/12/2023

IHPN Policy Officer Charlie Boyd looks forward to upcoming sessions at COP28 which hopefully will bring a more overt focus on the relationship between climate change and population health, and how this might influence our own work in our journey towards Net Zero. 

We're not net zero until we are all net zero

30/11/2023

With COP28 now underway, attention will once again turn to matters of environmental policy and how nations around the world can tackle climate change. Danielle Henry reflects on our own work with the independent healthcare sector, recent developments, and where we go next.

Countdown to Net Zero Conference

13/09/2023

Danielle Henry talks, ahead of our inaugural Net Zero conference on September 18th, about what's in store

Net Zero Resource Pack

10/08/2023

New report launched on independent health sector’s progress in delivering net zero

09/11/2022

IHPN launches its new report looking at the independent healthcare sector's progress in delivering net zero

Clearing the air - how the independent sector is working to achieve net zero by 2035

09/11/2022

To mark COP27 and the one year anniversary of IHPN’s industry-wide pledge to achieve net zero by 2035, this report sets out the independent health sector’s progress in reducing carbon emissions.

Clearing the air – how healthcare providers can cut emissions from anaesthetic gases and inhalers

22/04/2022

To mark Earth Day 2022, IHPN's Danielle Henry and Kelly Marsh reflect on whether we are all doing what we can in the race to achieving net zero, particularly around the use of medicines, notably anaesthetic gases and inhalers.

The role of healthcare in tackling climate change - is the weather about to change?

20/12/2021

Much has been written about climate change in the past few months as the great and the good converged on Glasgow in November for the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. IHPN's Danielle Henry looks at the drivers to becoming net zero and how are they “changing the weather” around the climate change debate.

IHPN launches new industry-wide commitment to achieve “net zero” by 2035

29/10/2021

Ahead of the COP26 UN Climate Change conference in Glasgow, IHPN have launched a new industry-wide pledge to achieve net zero emissions by 2035 and a net zero supply chain by 2045.