The SA Health Climate Change and Health Framework 2025-2030 (PDF 2592KB) highlights that action is needed now to protect public health, based on clear evidence both connecting climate change with health risks, and the contribution of health care to climate change.

The Climate Change and Health Framework Summary (PDF 80KB) offers a snapshot overview.

Goals to achieve success

SA Health has set the following four goals to achieve success:

  1. environmentally responsible
  2. net zero in all areas of operations, service delivery and culture
  3. climate-resilient to the impacts of climate change
  4. a provider of high-quality health services for patients and communities.

Eight priority action areas have been identified as guiding pathways to successfully reach the four goals. 

Priority action areas

SA Health’s 8 priority action areas include:

  1. leadership, governance, and partnerships
  2. health workforce
  3. low carbon, high-quality healthcare
  4. infrastructure, technologies, and products
  5. energy – efficient and green
  6. water, sanitation, and waste
  7. integrated risk and early warning systems
  8. population risk, capacity, and adaptation assessment.

Focus and recognition within the Framework

A First Nations’ focus is essential in all aspects, to understand impacts, centre and learn from existing cultural knowledge.

The Framework also recognises the intersections of the broader health sector in our state – and offers a pathway of adaptation and mitigation for mutual action, to be realised through the collaborative Climate Change and Health Community of Practice  (CCHCOP).