QHS Working To Save Our Planet
QHS is constantly striving to deliver environmental improvements, for example its Environmental Management System is ISO 14001 accredited for waste management and recycling. Several years ago, QHS introduced Hybrid Cars into its fleet with the objective to reduce carbon emissions and protect the environment. It met its next milestone of this journey in 2021, when it took delivery of its first all-electric vehicles. QHS are also accredited by OZEV (Office for Zero Emission Vehicle) to install E.V. Charging Points and already use advance vehicle telematics to optimise vehicle journeys and fuel efficiency.
The United Nations General Assembly designated 22 April as the annual date on which to have International Mother Earth Day. The current UN Secretary-General António Guterres states "We must act decisively to protect our planet from both the coronavirus and the existential threat of climate disruption."
International Mother Earth Day provides an opportunity to raise global public awareness of the challenges to the well-being of the planet and all the life it supports. The Day also recognises and calls for a collective responsibility, as heralded in the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Declaration, to promote harmony with nature and the Earth, to achieve a just balance among the economic, social and environmental needs of the present and future generations of humanity. This Declaration consisted of 27 principles intended to guide countries in future sustainable development and over 175 countries signed up to it.
International Mother Earth Day seeks to highlight such principles and topics as Biodiversity, Sustainable Development, Land, Stakeholder Participation, Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples.
There is growing Worldwide concern about the health consequences of biodiversity loss and change. Biodiversity changes affect ecosystem functioning and significant disruptions of ecosystems can result in life sustaining ecosystem goods and services. Despite ongoing Worldwide efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating globally at rates unprecedented in human history. It is estimated that around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction.
Whilst our immediate priority may still be to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but in long-term, it is more important to tackle habitat and biodiversity loss.
Join QHS in this fight to save our Mother Earth.