Climate Response Plan 2026 to 2028
- All Wales/National
Our Pathway to Net Zero and Climate Resilience.
Executive summary
Climate change is recognised as the greatest threat to humanity (WHO, UN, WWF). Climate change affects our physical environment and as a result affects the functioning of our health systems and population health. Extreme weather events like drought, flooding, and heatwaves are becoming more frequent, and pose an increasing risk to our health and wellbeing. Events such as these are predicted to intensify, impacting all areas of life that are essential to achieve and maintain good health (RSPH, UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, WHO). This has highlighted, once again, the profound interdependence between population, societal, economic and environmental well-being.
Our Long-Term Strategy recognises Public Health Wales’ responsibility as a system leader and commits to taking preventative action to mitigate the effects of climate change. Tackling the effects of climate change is one of our six strategic priorities and Public Health Wales has recently published route maps detailing our plans for how we can take action to minimise our impact on our future climate and therefore population health.
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