Leading health and environmental experts are calling for urgent action to protect people’s health from climate change and nature loss, as a new guide for parliamentarians launches today in the House of Lords. The Parliamentarians’ Guide to Health and Climate Change brings together leading experts and the latest evidence to explain why climate change and environmental decline are among the greatest threats to health in the 21st century – and what parliamentarians and policymakers can do to respond.

The 2026 Lancet Countdown UK Policy Priorities published today call for accelerated action on the decarbonisation of energy, increasing access to healthy and sustainable food and governance mechanisms to improve cross-sector working to protect health from the impact of climate change.

The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change issues a statement on the recent Government decision to approve production at the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea, despite the growing evidence of health harms caused by climate change.