🌊The Rising Faster Than the Sea Levels project is working to understand and support the mental health and wellbeing of Filipino youth as they navigate the climate crisis. Read more about the work they are doing here⬇️ #ClimateChange #MentalHealth
Climate Cares Centre
@climatecares.bsky.social
To understand & support mental health in the climate crisis. A Centre within Imperial College London's Institute of Global Health Innovation, and partnering with Grantham Institute & Helix Centre. 🌎 #ConnectingClimateMinds imperial.ac.uk/climate-cares
How digital tools developed during COVID-19 can help to alleviate pressure on our healthcare systems during heatwaves? With contributions from Dr @emlawrance.bsky.social and Dr @neiljennings.bsky.social. Read the paper here➡️https://ow.ly/HtGg50WYSX3 #ClimateChange #MentalHealth #Heatwaves
@jessnlv.bsky.social talks about the psychological challenges for those working to combat climate change in a world where climate scepticism is rising on the Sensemaker podcast with @theobserveruk.bsky.social Listen to the Sensemaker here👇 lnk.to/uaivKE #ClimateChange #MentalHealth
How can education best support students & educators to navigate a changing world?🌍💭 Jack, Compass Project Youth Advisor, tells us why this matters & calls for students & educators to share experiences in a 15-min survey here➡️https://ow.ly/IaTG50WTLjP #ClimateChange #MentalHealth #YouthVoice
@drdaniellawatson.bsky.social speaks at #EHPS2025 in Groningen! 🌍 Presenting research on the youth-driven Resilience Project💚 She also co-led the Equity, Global Health & Sustainability SIG on sustainable conference travel + first climate café!☕ #ClimateAction #MentalHealth #Sustainability
Climate change isn’t a future problem - it’s a present reality. But even without increasing climate chaos, research shows human health is weather-dependent.🌡️ A new paper for @pnas.org by Nick Obradovich, @emlawrance.bsky.social and @keltonminor.bsky.social: ow.ly/SApH50WHnGW #Climate #Health
Our current climate already merits serious research and policy attention | PNAS
Our current climate already merits serious research and policy attention
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Read Sisy Chen's blog about insights from #ConnectingClimateMinds First Regional Dialogues in 2023. With a focus on: 😣Socioemotional stress 💰Economic Impacts ✊Community Resilience 🔬Context-Specific Research Read the blog here⬇️ #ClimateChange #MentalHealth #ClimateAction
Climate Change and Mental Health: Insights from Connecting Climate Minds’ First Regional Dialogues - Institute of Global Health Innovation
As climate change continues to reshape our world, it's not just landscapes that are transforming; the mental well-being of communities worldwide is also on the line.
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Heat negatively impacts people with mental health conditions. But what are countries doing to protect the most vulnerable in society? Read our in-depth piece right here⤵️: #ClimateChange #MentalHealth #ClimateAction
The Overlooked Link Between Heat and Mental Health
We need to highlight this overlooked aspect of extreme heat in public discourse and include it in our actions to respond to heatwaves to save lives and protect mental health in a changing climate.
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Check out toolkits developed by #ConnectingClimateMinds to help guide researchers, aid decision-makers translate evidence into policy, and integrate people with lived experience in addressing #ClimateChange and #MentalHealth.🧠💙 Read here➡️https://ow.ly/eEZH50WAHzZ #ClimateAction
Connecting Climate Minds Hub
Toolkits
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♨️Mental health is an overlooked impact of extreme heat and heatwaves and will be a more significant problem due to climate change. Read our new in-depth piece on heats connection to mental health and the policies in place to tackle it⤵️:
The Overlooked Link Between Heat and Mental Health
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Our latest report, with @unitedgmh.bsky.social, highlights that mental health is currently missing from many national adaptation policies around the world. Read our blog post summarising why this matters and what this analysis tells us➡️ : ow.ly/Juij50WyCP6
🎊Incredible news that the ICJ have ruled that States are legally obligated to protect the environment and must act on climate change. Read the report that our very own @jessnlv.bsky.social contributed to which was part of this landmark case⤵️: futuregenerationstribunal.com/peoples-peti...
Dr John Jamir Benzon Aruta spoke with clarity on how to evolve #EnvironmentalPsychology by advocating for more diverse perspectives. Read in his own words below 👇 We are grateful to John for his continued collaboration, mentorship and friendship on multiple projects over the years 💚 #ICEP2025
The 'Rising Faster than the Sea Levels' team showcase: 💡Group discussions with Australian young people who want interventions to support their mental health during the climate crisis 🗺 Mapping of 178 concepts of climate mental health concepts. Eco-anxiety had 41 different definitions #ICEP2025
Fantastic to meet, for the first time in person, some of the leading and lovely experts of the climate change and mental health field 💚🌏 Ans Vercammen 🇦🇺🇧🇪 @emlawrance.bsky.social 🇦🇺🇬🇧 @iaojala.bsky.social 🇫🇮🇸🇪 John Aruta 🇵🇭 #ICEP2025 @climatecares.bsky.social
✨️Dr Teaghan Hogg presented preliminary findings from our 'Rising Faster than the Sea Levels' project in Australia, the Philippines and Trinidad & Tobago 🇦🇺Youth advisors co-facilated group discussions with 45 Australian young people who advocated for climate mental health interventions #ICEP2025
🌱Kicking off the International Conference on Environmental Psychology in Vilinius, Lithuania! Fantastic to meet in person for the first time, the 'Rising Faster than the Sea Levels' team from the Philippines, Australia and the UK 🚀 #ICEP2025 @climatecares.bsky.social
Dr @emlawrance.bsky.social is at SXSW today, on a panel exploring the NHS’s role in shaping healthier cities, in session at 10.30am. If you're there, join us! www.sxswlondon.com/session/buil... #climate #nhs #SXSW #ClimateChange
Don't forget to register for tomorrow's event with the #ATACH network! We'll be sharing insights on #Climate impacts and strategies to build more resilient, sustainable mental health systems. Sign up below👇
Join us on 5 June for a key technical meeting on #ClimateChange & #MentalHealth systems with the #ATACH network!🌍 We'll share insights on climate impacts & strategies to build more resilient, sustainable systems. Register now: www.atachcommunity.com/atach-commun... @who.int @unitedgmh.bsky.social
📃Delighted to be featured by @weforum.org as a key global organisation responding to the impact of #ClimateChange on #MentalHealth! #ConnectingClimateMinds has convened over 1,180 contributors across 126 countries🌍 Read more this #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth: www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
Environmental disruption is impacting people's mental health
Communities around the world are using innovative programmes like youth-led support schemes to address the mental health impacts of environmental change.
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Join us on 5 June for a key technical meeting on #ClimateChange & #MentalHealth systems with the #ATACH network!🌍 We'll share insights on climate impacts & strategies to build more resilient, sustainable systems. Register now: www.atachcommunity.com/atach-commun... @who.int @unitedgmh.bsky.social
🧠 For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we’re spotlighting our position paper from last year on the link between #ClimateChange & #MentalHealth. Co-authored by our Policy Fellow @jessnlv.bsky.social & other experts in the field. 📖 Read more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @granthamicl.bsky.social
Climate change and mental health: Position paper of the European Psychiatric Association | European Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Climate change and mental health: Position paper of the European Psychiatric Association - Volume 67 Issue 1
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Fantastic to see Dr @emlawrance.bsky.social from our Climate Cares team present as part of the Changing Planet Seminar!💡🌍 In this seminar, Emma shed light on how #ClimateChange and #MentalHealth are deeply connected. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek @granthamicl.bsky.social
🌍The #CCM Global Online Hub is your go-to for brilliant resources on #MentalHealth & #ClimateChange. Now with multilingual Research & Action Agendas used in #CCM dialogues (Arabic, Portuguese, French, Spanish)! Explore during #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek: hub.connectingclimateminds.org/sign-up
🧠 This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, join us & @granthamicl.bsky.social for the next A Changing Planet Seminar with @emlawrance.bsky.social. Discover the evidence base for how #ClimateChange and #MentalHealth are deeply connected. 📅Tomorrow | 14.00-15.00 ➡️ www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19200...
Glad to see @emlawrance.bsky.social featured in @natureportfolio.nature.com! 📰 “We need to be preparing communities to face an increasing number of #Climate events.” Learn more about how young people will face unprecedented exposure to heatwaves over their lifetime: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How climate change will burden our children: data reveal a lifetime of extreme heat
Young people will be exposed to a number of heatwaves that no one would have experienced in pre-industrial times.
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🌍 Climate change is a health crisis. Join global experts at the Global Climate and Health Summit – 16–17 July, London & online. Tackling heat 🌡️, air pollution 🌬️, and nutrition 🥦 through science, policy & action. 🎟️ Free to attend – apply now www.globalclimateandhealthsummit.org #ClimateHealthSummit25
Global Climate and Health Summit
Join us in July 2025 for our Global Climate and Health Summit.
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🔍The @imperial-ighi.bsky.social teams are on a mission, searching for clues related to themes within our department. On the hunt for life's main joys: antibiotics, robots, and climate art.
🚀 Laura Horga kickes off the #IGHIDemoDay! ✨️ Thank you to Laura for organising the event along side the team. ⏳️Each team presented a 'Pecha Kucha' talk - 20 slides, 20 seconds each.... @imperial-ighi.bsky.social
New in TIME magazine - read "Climate Anxiety Is Taking Its Toll on Young People" time.com/7280989/clim... @emlawrance.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social said: “It’s the people who have contributed the least to the problem who are facing the challenge of dealing with the consequences...”