Environmental action can improve wellbeing in Scotland

Scotland can lead by linking climate and nature action to concrete outcomes that people feel. Lower bills. Better homes. More reliable local transport. Fair access to training and jobs. Social security that helps people cope with shocks, instead of pushing them deeper into crisis.

This is central to whether environmental action succeeds. Public support grows when people can see that policy improves their lives, especially for those at the sharpest end of cost-of-living pressures.

If we are serious about building a better future, then environmental action in Scotland must reduce hunger and hardship.