NIHR Carbon Guidelines

Background to the NIHR Carbon Reduction Guidelines research project

Professor Dame Sally C. Davies, Director General of Research and Development Department of Health commissioned NETSCC to develop NIHR-wide guidelines for researchers to help reduce carbon expenditure in health research.  The project was instigated following the success of the NETSCC Research-on-Research project, the Carbon cost of pragmatic randomised controlled trials: retrospective analysis of sample of trials (BMJ. 2009; 339:b4187).

The project was led by a working group, chaired by Professor Ian Roberts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. A consultation workshop, attended by senior NIHR stakeholders, was held in January 2010 to discuss a draft version of the guidelines. A report of the consultation workshop is available here

The guidelines were open for electronic consultation from the 8 March to the 19 March 2010.

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