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Queensland Health adapts and extends sustainable practices in its culture, its strategy and practices. The practices are reinforced throughout by high level involvement and the principles for sustainability and improved performance. The principles extend towards issues of social and political agenda and the expectation that the department will work towards their environmental impact.
The Carbon Management Unit is committed to:
Electricity Reduction
The Strategic Energy Efficiency Policy has set a target to reduce energy consumption by five per cent by 2010 and a 20 per cent reduction by 2015.
The Carbon Management Unit has prepared the Qld Health Strategic Energy Management Plan (SEMP) to support the policy. The policy was approved by Cabinet in December 2007 as part of the government's commitment to meet the national greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of 60 per cent by 2050.
Specific actions to be looked at under the policy are roles and responsibilities, energy performance, monitoring and reporting, awareness and training and supporting business systems and processes. The policy aims to ensure energy is used efficiently in government buildings and greenhouse gas emissions are minimised.
The CMU has developed and will implement a management plan (EMP) for Queensland Health and carry out ongoing recording and monitoring of energy consumption. Energy consumption figures for 2005-2006 will be used as the comparative baseline and will calculated as net reductions across Queensland Health's building portfolio.
Energy conservation principles will be incorporated into the refurbishment and maintenance of existing buildings.
Carbon Reduction
Education and training programs will be introduced to change staff behavioural and usage patterns, and a central register will be maintained to record energy consumption and greenhouse emission levels.
The policy forms an important step towards implementing the Carbon Reduction Strategy which establishes mandatory energy reduction targets in all Queensland Government buildings.
Renewable Energy
The Carbon Management Unit is also involved in saving the department money through its energy purchasing practices. It aggregates the purchase of energy for Queensland Health to obtain competitive pricing on the contestable market, and analyses the tariffs on franchise sites to identify the best tariffs.
Water Reduction
We are now located on 6th Floor, Anzac Building, 200 Adelaide Street, Brisbane
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