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Climate change, health and ethics

Embedding ethics across policy and practice addressing climate change and health.

The environment and health is a priority area for the NCOB, as set out in our new strategy. Within this area, we have decided to focus on how ethics can support UK policymakers who need to navigate the immediate and enduring global threat to health that climate change poses.

Our project is exploring how ethics can help decision-makers balance the trade-offs in addressing the impact of climate change on health. We are developing case studies to showcase the decisions that policymakers and others are dealing with in their work, highlighting here and how ethics could be better embedded in policy and engaged for the benefit of us all.

We published a report ‘Climate change and health: embedding ethics into policy and decision making’ in January 2025 and we look forward to building on the findings, and working to incorporate ethics into climate policymaking throughout 2025.