Climate change will be one of the greatest challenges to public health in the 21st century.

With the UK's warmest 10 years on record all happening since 2002, the ‘global weirding' of weather will increasingly have real-life consequences in our communities. And with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicating current government pledges would see temperatures rise well above the 1.50C, local government increasingly needs to plan for more frequent extreme weather events and their effects on wellbeing, in addition to pledges to reduce emissions.