How it plans to approach its engagement with the people of Scotland in meeting the challenges of a changing climate and biodiversity loss.

I am pleased to announce the launch of ‘Our Scotland, Our Future: Public Engagement Strategy for Climate and Nature’. This publication comes at a vital time. The impacts of climate change are with us and are being felt with increasing severity across Scotland. Public engagement is essential to deliver the action we all need to take together, improve our quality of life, reduce future impacts, and contribute to a more prosperous, healthy, fairer and resilient Scotland.Our public engagement approach seeks to build understanding that motivates, inspires and leads to action across the whole of society, among our urban, rural and island communities. It aims to shift the conversation about climate change and nature loss towards one of hope, honesty, resilience, and shared ownership of solutions, recognising people not only as audiences, but as active partners in re-imagining and shaping Scotland’s future.This is a public engagement strategy for climate change mitigation, adaption and nature loss together, reflecting how interconnected they are and how people experience their local environment, understand how climate and nature-related risks are changing where they live, and enabling local action that delivers multiple benefits.