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Financing Local Futures
Taking our temperature
Considering health and climate change
Alice Owen
Local and Regional Chair
SDC
Jim
Kitchen
Head of SDC, Northern Ireland
CIPFA Sustainability Conference, 6 Feb 2007
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IPH seminar, Dublin, February 2010
Who we are
• Government’s independent adviser on sustainable
development
• Our role: through advocacy, advice and capacitybuilding, we help to put sustainable development at
the heart of government policy
• The SDC’s 16 Commissioners report to the Prime
Minister & the leaders of the Devolved Governments
• SDC in Northern Ireland has a Vice-Chair & its own
Secretariat
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The five principles of Sustainable Development
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One Planet Living
“If everyone on the
Planet were to consume
resources and generate
carbon dioxide at the
same rate as we do in
Europe, we would need
three planets to support
us. We only have one.”
WWF
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Values
• Improving lives
• Protecting the weakest
• Fairness
• Wellbeing
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The alignment of climate and health
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Complex problems: climate change & obesity
• Policy failure to act at an early stage
•Acknowledgement without personal action
• Resulting in acceptance, normalisation
• Environmental determinants not fully understood
It’s not too late to tackle the problem
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Sustainable Diets
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Action on climate change
Buildings
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Action on climate change
Energy
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Action on climate change
Transport
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Climate change policy
Still a long way to go
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So what can we do together?
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Putting climate change and health together
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Some practical steps
• Using health budgets for better societal outcomes
• benefit local communities
• strengthen local economies
• enhance the environment
• Good Corporate Citizenship – SDC & NHS work
• Procurement; transport; facilities management; employment &
skills; community engagement; new buildings.
• Measuring & improving the footprint of healthcare
Source: Northern Visions, 2008
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Taking our temperature
Thank you
www.sd-commission.org.uk
www.corporatecitizen.nhs.uk
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