The NIHR Carbon Reduction Guidelines
The NIHR Carbon Reduction Guidelines
The NIHR Carbon Reduction Guidelines
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<strong>The</strong> recommendations of the document fall under two main headings: sensiblestudy design and reducing the environmental impact of the NHS throughresearch. A summary of the recommendations for researchers is shown inTable 1.<strong>The</strong> <strong>NIHR</strong> <strong>Carbon</strong> <strong>Reduction</strong> <strong>Guidelines</strong> are a first stepSensible research design can reduce carbon waste and these guidelines arean important and necessary first step to help shrink the carbon footprint ofresearch funded by the <strong>NIHR</strong>. Further research is required to estimate withgreater accuracy the carbon footprint of <strong>NIHR</strong> funded studies, to understandthe carbon impact of <strong>NIHR</strong> research infrastructure and to estimate thedividends of strategies for reducing carbon production in research.5