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Health and wellbeing in a
changing climate
Jemma Knowles Climate SouthWest Project Officer
Jim Hodgson Climate Change Advisor, Climate Ready Support Service
Overview
Jemma
• Changing climate: impacts on a local level
• Local support available
Jim
• The Climate Ready support service
• New toolkit for health and wellbeing boards
What we have seen so far
2014: flooding and...?
2001:
2001:flooding
flooding
2013:
wave
2013: heat wave
flooding
storm
2003: heat wave
2012: drought
2012:
drought
flooding
2005:
flooding
2005: flooding
2010: flooding
2010:
flooding
snow & ice
snow
ice
2000:
2000:flooding
flooding
2006:
drought
2006: drought
heat
heat wave
wave
2008: flooding
flooding
2007:
flooding 2008:
2007: flooding
snow & ice
snow
ice
2009: flooding
2009:
flooding
snow & ice
snow
ice
Building resilience to extreme weather and a changing climate
What we can expect by 2050s
Overall increase in temperature
2.7°C
Increased winter precipitation
17%
Decreased summer precipitation
20%
Rising sea levels
26-29cm
More frequent & intense extreme weather
Building resilience to extreme weather and a changing climate
Impacts for health
Challenges
• Increased heat related deaths
• Increased deaths & admissions associated
with ground level ozone
• Increase in death & injury from flooding &
storms
• Increase in flood-related mental health
issues
• Increased ground level UV
Opportunities
• Increased physical recreation,
reduction in obesity & CHD
• Decrease in cold-related deaths
• Fewer cold related admissions
• Healthier lifestyles
Building resilience to extreme weather and a changing climate
Service delivery: impacts & response
Risk to
Examples of adaptive response
Estate/building & supporting
infrastructure (transport)
Vehicles/equipment
Natural ventilation
Cool spots
Green infrastructure, SuDS
Medications keep at right temperature
Rise in fuel, energy, water, food costs
Water supply
Supply chain, transport
Resource efficiency
Identification of alternatives
Workforce – accessibility, wellbeing
Vector disease migration
Patient comfort
Staff access considerations
Training and guidance on response to
extreme weather events
Transport planning
Adaptation inclusion in emergency and
contingency plans
Social impacts
Vulnerable communities
Information, targeted warning systems
Change in behaviours
Building resilience to extreme weather and a changing climate
Climate UK network
Building resilience to extreme weather and a changing climate
Climate SouthWest
www.climatesouthwest.org
[email protected]
@ClimateSW
Building resilience to extreme weather and a changing climate
Climate Ready Support Service
3 year programme launched in 2012
Part of Government's wider adaptation programme
Aim: to help ‘key sectors increase their resilience to climate risks’ by
incorporating climate risk management into routine business decisionmaking:
Primarily working in partnership and through others
Builds on our corporate objective to integrate adaptation into everything we
do
Climate Ready Support Service
Two key components:
Free, independent online advice and support via:
www.environment-agency.gov.uk/climateready
Tailored support and partnership working
to help key sectors adapt:
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Business & services
Infrastructure
Natural environment
Built environment
Local government
Health & wellbeing
Agriculture & forestry
Climate Ready and the NAP
Theme
Relevant NAP objectives for LAs
Local
Government
• Raise the profile of adaptation with LA’s and promote action
• Support local government to build a business case for action
• Local government policy framework supports climate resilience
• Support sector led activities to address local climate challenges
Healthy and
resilient
communities
• Promote climate resilience to organisations in the health sector
• Encourage resilience within the health system and its operations
• Reduce health impacts related to climate change e.g. heatwaves
• Improve the resilience of groups vulnerable to climate impacts
Built
Environment
• Developing skills to understand and manage climate risks
• Providing decision tools to help developers promote adaptation
• Ensuring new development is resilient to future flood risk
• Increasing the resilience of homes and buildings to climate risks
National Adaptation Delivery Group
Adaptation in the new health & social care system
Intervention / Action
Benefit
Climate ready JSNA & JHWS
Promotion of extreme weather
preparedness
Future proofing
Better health outcomes
Social Vulnerability
Meeting the NAP objectives
Climate ready commissioning plans
NHS Commissioning Board Business
continuity management framework
Commissioning board emergency
preparedness framework
EPRR core standards
Board approved SDMP
Public Health Outcomes Framework 3.6
All of above
Adaptation Reporting Power
Multi-agency planning a preparation for
response (including through LRFs)
Combating fuel poverty
Buildings better prepared for heatwaves
Adaptation Toolkit – coming soon
•Responding to specific needs of those
in the health and social care system
•Profiling adaptation as part of core
business
• informed by stakeholders (10 councils)
•How to assess risk to changing climate
•How to enable action
•How to test JSNA
•Case studies