Popular policies for a fairer, healthier, greener Scotland

Build stronger resilience to climate impacts

Climate impacts are already harming lives and livelihoods, and extreme weather is becoming the new normal. We are seeing droughts causing issues of water scarcity in the north east, affecting farmers crop yields and food and drink industries. Wildfires are undermining efforts to increase tree cover, causing ‘catastrophic damage’ to wildlife and affecting our health. Rapid erosion of coastlines is threatening homes and our cultural heritage.

An Ipsos UK study revealed significant public concern about climate impacts, along with shock and some anger that the public was not made aware of how severe these impacts could be and how soon they are likely to be felt.