Caring for the environment
St Vincent’s Health Australia, together with its partners, is one of Australia’s largest not-for-profit diversified Catholic healthcare providers. Our Mission, based on the Gospel and Catholic social teaching in the spirit of Mary Aikenhead, founder of the Sisters of Charity, is to bring the healing ministry of Jesus to all who seek our care. Implicit in our Mission is the transformation of healthcare to make it environmentally responsible and safe.
Our Objectives
St Vincent’s Health Australia has formulated an Environmental Framework [View Environmental Framework publication]. This framework seeks to articulate the environmental and ecological aspects of our Mission to provide a rationale for action. In doing so, we seek to integrate the many initiatives presently undertaken across all St Vincent's Health Australia and partner facilities into a framework consistent with our understanding of human dignity, compassion and justice. Environmental justice is a moral issue.
Our mission compels us to treat our environment with respect. As such we need to:
• Articulate our beliefs and commitment and discern in light of Catholic Social Teaching
• Assess our situation
• Act responsibly
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting
St Vincent’s Health Australia is registered for the purposes of The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (the NGER Act). The first annual reporting period for NGER began on 1 July 2008, with corporations that meet the NGER threshold mandated to report their:
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Energy production
• Energy consumption
• Other information specified under NGER legislation
St Vincent’s Health Australia as a national group exceeds the reportable thresholds, and in compliance with the NGER Act is now collecting emissions, energy production & consumption data, and reporting this information with the first reportable year ending 30th June 2009. As a controlling entity for the purposes of the legislative definition, St Vincent's Health Australia is reporting its subsidiaries and joint venture operations as a single national group through the Online System for Comprehensive Activity Reporting (OSCAR).
Energy Efficiency Opportunities program
St Vincent’s Health Australia is also registered for the purposes of The Australian Government's Energy Efficiency Opportunities legislation and program; and is now preparing initial Reporting Schedules and undertaking preliminary audits of Energy Use.
A signed copy of the St Vincent's Health Australia Energy Efficiencies Report for 2011 may be found here.
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