Climate change and sustainability strategic plan - Public Health Scotland
Public Health Scotland (PHS) is an NHS Board and the lead national body for improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of all of Scotland’s people. PHS work with partners to reduce the impacts of the changing climate on health and health inequalities and find ‘win-win’ co-benefits for population health, wellbeing and equity for climate action.
The plan sets out 41 high-level actions that PHS will take from 2023 through to 2026, and how PHS will support delivery of NHSScotland’s climate emergency and sustainability strategy.
The strategy aims to place population health and equity at the heart of Scotland's response to the climate emergency. The first half of the plan describes the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on population health and equity. The second half outlines a range of actions that will help to build climate-resilient, healthy and equitable places.
Public Health Scotland has more on climate and population health in their climate emergency resource pages.