The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change exists to monitor this transition from threat to opportunity. It produces global data and recommendations to ensure that health is at the centre of how governments understand and respond to climate change. The UKHACC collaborates with the Lancet Countdown to produce the UK policy briefs.
2025 Lancet Countdown UK Policy Priorities
The 2025 policy priorities call for action to:
- Accelerate the clean-energy transition to protect health and the economy
- Transform food systems and diets to improve health, cut emissions and improve food insecurity
- Significantly increase protected adaptation funding to protect health and ensure health system resilience
2024 Lancet Countdown UK Policy Brief
This year’s UK policy brief highlights three critical priorities: reducing air pollution, protecting populations from extreme heat, and advancing a low-carbon, climate-resilient healthcare sector.
2023 Lancet Countdown UK Policy Brief
The 2023 Lancet Countdown policy brief calls for action to transform our energy system, food, and access to green space to protect health.
2022 Lancet Countdown UK Policy Brief
The 2022 Lancet Countdown UK Policy Brief calls on the UK government to stop subsidising fossil fuels, reduce air pollution, and improve access to green space to protect health.