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‘Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system’, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, published last month, reveals, adding that many of the changes observed are ‘unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of years’.


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Basis (see page 15) emphasises that some of the changes already set in motion – such as continued sea level rises – are ‘irreversible over hundreds to thousands of years’. However, the scientists say that ‘strong and sustained reductions’ in CO2


and other greenhouse gas


emissions would ‘limit climate change’. While news that human activity continues to impact very significantly on our climate will surprise few, some of the statistics presented in the report make stark reading – each of the last four decades has, for example, been successively warmer than any decade that preceded it since 1850. The report adds: ‘Human influence is very likely the main driver of the global retreat of glaciers since the 1990s, and the decrease in Arctic sea ice area between 1979-1988 and 2010-2019. It is virtually certain that hot extremes (including heatwaves) have become more frequent and more intense across most land regions since


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the 1950s, while cold extremes have become less frequent and less severe, with high confidence that human-induced climate change is the main driver of these changes.’ The IPCC adds that ‘with every additional increment of global warming, changes in extremes continue to become larger’. Against such a sobering backdrop, IHEEM’s launch of an Environmental Sustainability Technical Platform, which held its inaugural meeting in mid-June, and whose members include both high-ranking and highly experienced NHS EFM professionals, and academics with a special interest in engineering and sustainability, could hardly have come at a more apposite time. See page 7 for more details.


This month’s Institute News section also includes further information on next month’s ‘hybrid’ Healthcare Estates event, which will combine a live exhibition at Manchester Central with over 80 hours of conference and educational content. IHEEM promises over 100 live and pre-recorded webinars and presentations, a proportion of which will be CPD accredited. Look out for our full show guide in October’s HEJ.


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