Country profiles

EEA member countries are at different stages of preparing, developing and implementing national adaptation strategies and plans, including the consideration of health-related aspects in them. Countries are also at different stages in considering climate change aspects in their national and -where appropriate- subnational health policies. The country profiles provide a brief overview of the consideration of public health in climate change adaptation strategies and plans, and of coverage of climate change adaptation in public health policies, based on a number of public documents.

For EU Member States, the information in the country profiles is based on the following information sources:

Governance Regulation (GovReg) reporting (2023, 2021): 
EU Member States provided information on their national adaptation actions under Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action for the first time in 2021 and again in 2023. In several cases, EEA member countries that are not EU Member States have voluntarily reported on adaptation. The full range of information is published on the Climate-ADAPT Country Profiles. 

EEA policy analysis (2022):
Policies on climate change adaptation and national health strategies were analysed by the European Environment Agency to identify the coverage of climate-related impacts on health and types of interventions addressing them. Results, based on information collected in 2021, are available in the report Climate change and health: the national policy overview in Europe. The geographical coverage of various aspects in national policies across Europe can be visualized using the map viewer.

For other EEA member countries, substantially less information is available. The information provided here is based on voluntary submissions to the EEA, which are published on the Climate-ADAPT Country Profiles, complemented by information from the 7th National Communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).