Mental health and wellbeing in the climate emergency
Climate Cares is a team of researchers, designers, policy experts and educators working to understand and support mental health in the current climate and ecological crises.
"Climate change is an underappreciated mental health emergency. This is a technical, social, and emotional issue."
Professor Sir David Nabarro, IGHI Co-Director
What we do
We enable people, communities and systems to have both the emotional resilience and transformative potential to cope with the climate emergency and take meaningful climate action. We work collectively for a better climate future that benefits mental health and wellbeing.
Our mission is to equip individuals, communities and systems with the knowledge and resources to protect mental health from climate impacts, while enabling climate action that strengthens the conditions for good mental health and wellbeing.
We achieve our vision through four pillars of our work: Research, Policy and Implementation, Education and Awareness, Intervention Design
Achieving our vision - pillars
Research
Generate research and strengthen the evidence base on climate change and mental health
Policy and Implementation
Translate research into policy and implementation
Education and Awareness
Develop toolkits
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Intervention Design
Develop, identify and scale-up effective interventions
Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI)
Climate Cares is the sixth of IGHI's Centres of Excellence. It is the first Centre to exist globally with a focus specifically on climate, mental health and wellbeing.
Visit the Connecting Climate Minds Global Online Hub
- Visit the Connecting Climate Minds Hub, uniting the worlds of mental health and climate change research
- View all the Research and Action agendas from the project
- Read, learn from and share the Global Research and Action Agenda