Kaiser to end its global warming emissions by 2025

Kaiser Permanente on Tuesday will unveil an aggressive environmental plan that, by 2025, will slash the hospital system’s water use, recycle or compost all of its non-hazardous waste and eliminate or offset its greenhouse gas emissions.

“Our aim with these new goals is to go beyond eliminating our own environmental impact to help restore, renew and revitalize our communities,” said Raymond Baxter, Kaiser’s senior vice president of community benefit, research and health policy, in a press release.

In 2012, Kaiser vowed to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2020.

The health care organization now says it should reach that level by 2017, so the new goals set a far more ambitious target.