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In 2021, the European Parliament voted to create binding science-based targets for material use and consumption and Sweden did the same thing in 2022. We agree with what has been said already about the use of targets.
Thinking about that globally, the memorandum was published in June 2022, and pay and energy prices, in particular, have rocketed since then, literally in the past five or six months, so all the projections in table 2 of the financial memorandum need to be updated.
There is no point in creating unit efficiencies if we still go on to produce and emit more greenhouse gases, so we need express limits for nitrogen, methane and carbon dioxide. We want a greening menu from 2022 and general reduction contracts with farms.
Perhaps HECA is not past its sell-by date, but over the years local authorities have become more acutely aware that perhaps their starting point was wrong.
In other words, as well as academic training, they can build on a bank of experience.Normally, it is existing nurses, whether in primary or secondary care, who want to become specialists—they view it as another career option.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 December 2021