SEPA’s State of Scotland’s Environment 2006 report identified climate change as the biggest threat facing Scotland’s environment with serious implications for the nation’s health and wellbeing.

SEPA’s policies, advice and guidance will have to keep pace with changing social and economic priorities as climate change considerations bear increasing weight on all sectors of society. SEPA also have a role in helping to develop and contribute to knowledge and understanding of the science and impacts of, and solutions to, climate change.

The consultation proposes a five year Climate Change Plan and discusses SEPA’s current baseline of activities in the context of climate change; our strategic aims and objectives for the period 2008– 2012; identifies actions that they will take across all of their business activities and functions to minimise emissions of greenhouse gases and build Scotland’s resilience to unavoidable climate change. SEPA propose to integrate strategic thinking on climate change into all of their activities.