Strategy Design
Interior Health Climate Change & Sustainability Roadmap
Health care is on the front line of climate impacts, and this roadmap is one of the early, still relatively rare examples of a dedicated health authority climate and sustainability plan in Canada, translating urgency into coordinated action that protects care and advances the common good.
Building a clear roadmap to protect care and strengthen resilience in a changing climate.
Climate change is escalating health risks and disruptive events, and the institutions long tasked with emergency response are struggling to keep up. Interior Health recognized the link between human and environmental well-being and needed a clear, organized, actionable roadmap that could guide coordinated mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability action across a complex health system and the communities it serves.
Profile
Client: Interior Health Authority (BC)
Practice Area: Strategy Design, Community Dialogue
Impact Domains: Climate Change; Health System Resilience; Organizational Strategy
Awards:
Canadian College of Health Leaders Energy and Environmental Stewardship Award
Work
Established a cohesive roadmap built on guiding principles, goals, and 20 comprehensive actions to reduce emissions and environmental impacts, strengthen resilience, and support local and Aboriginal communities.
Defined clear focus areas and goals across sustainability and climate change, including accountability, resourcing, operations, mitigation, and adaptation.
Anchored implementation in a continuous improvement cycle, Act, Report, Assess, Adjust, with annual progress reporting and the ability to adapt as conditions change.
Designed the roadmap to help staff implement, build partnerships, collaborate, and act with intention over a 5-year implementation period.
