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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

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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🌊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
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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
A Tesla electric car is driving past a sign warning of extreme heat and the need to save power between 4-9pm. Los Angeles, USA. September 2022. Mandatory Credit: Chris Yarzab
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
@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
Global Youth Climate Strike - San Francisco, group of young people with banners.
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
@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
Photo from the Climate CaféPhoto from the talk on the Resilience ProjectPhoto from the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Equity, Global Health & Sustainability
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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
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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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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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
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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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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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
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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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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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
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Connecting Climate Minds Hub
Toolkits
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
♨️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⤵️:
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The Overlooked Link Between Heat and Mental Health
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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
Heat map showing National Adaptation Policies
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🎊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...
People walking through floodwater outside the Doge's palace in Venice, Italy. Source of photo is Adam Sébire / Climate Visuals.
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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
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Dr Daniella Watson @drdaniellawatson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
✨️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
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Dr Daniella Watson @drdaniellawatson.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🌱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
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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👇
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
📃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...
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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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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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
''Mental health and climate change: Making mental health systems climate resilient and sustainable. 5th June 2025. First Session: 09.00-10.00 CEST. Second Session: 19.00-20.00 CEST.
Please register for this online event using this code.''
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🧠 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
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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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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🌍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
Connecting Climate Minds Global Online Hub Expansion
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🧠 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...
A Changing Seminar with Dr Emma Lawrance. Climate change & mental health. Common causes, common solutions. Tuesday 13 May 2025
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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...
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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 Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🌍 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
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Global Climate and Health Summit
Join us in July 2025 for our Global Climate and Health Summit.
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🔍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.
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🚀 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
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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...”
Youth Climate Justice protest - people with banners
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
See the latest news from #ConnectingClimateMinds! We're excited to share updates on our Global Online Hub expansion, recent community events, and upcoming opportunities to engage with #climate and mental health initiatives worldwide. Read the newsletter 📰 mailchi.mp/e5392911232d... #MentalHealth
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Connecting Climate Minds
"Connecting Climate Minds" in blue text on a white background, over a blue wavy pattern.
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Join Generation Hope this week - a free programme led by @nhm-london.bsky.socialin collaboration with youth climate and nature advocates from across the world, aimed at empowering people to become advocates for the planet. www.nhm.ac.uk/events/gener... #MentalHealth #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction
NHM  - Fixing our broken planet - Generation Hope
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
New research on the psychological impacts of #ClimateChange on US youth examines the links between a broad spectrum of emotional & mental responses, mental health and well-being, and life plans. Read the paper in @pnas.org 📄https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311400122 @emlawrance.bsky.social
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Psychological impacts of climate change on US youth | PNAS
Awareness of the threats of climate change is causing distress in increasingly documented ways, with youth particularly affected. Experiences such ...
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Fantastic to see our centre's key highlights and achievements from last year in the IGHI Annual Report. Read the full report below to find out more: imperial.ac.uk/Stories/ighi... #ClimateChange #MentalHealth
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Institute of Global Health Innovation Annual Report 2024
Our year, our progress
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Check out this fantastic opportunity for youth leaders aged 18-35 to become #Climate Youth Resilience Ambassadors for Inner-Led Change. Don't miss out! Find out more on their website and apply before 14 April ⏰: climateyouthresilience.org/programmes/a...
Ambassadors for Inner-Led Change. 2025 Call for Applications. Program perios: May-October 2025. Climate Youth Resilience
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
See the #ConnectingClimateMinds Hub for resources in climate change + mental health The Research & Action Agendas are available as: Summary slide deck 👩‍🏫 1 minute explainer video 📺 Accessible reader version📒 Downloadable PDF version in 5 languages 🔤 hub.connectingclimateminds.org/research-and...
Illustration of people connected around the globe
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Apply by 30 March to join our team as a Communication & Events Trainee, focusing @climatecares.bsky.social's work. This traineeship is open to people with limited or no work experience. 🔗Find out more: www.imperial.ac.uk/global-healt... 📺Watch applicants webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N7i...
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Julia Anderson Training Programme - applicants webinar
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Today Dr Emma Lawrance of Climate Cares is speaking on #ClimateChange & #MentalHealth at Measuring Progress: STATEC Well-being Seminar Series. It's not too late to register to join the webinar at 17:00 CET, 16:00 GMT, 11:00 Eastern! 🔗 statistiques.public.lu/en/statistiq... @emlawrance.bsky.social
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Measuring Progress Seminar Series
STATEC Research has a new seminar series in which scholars from around the world will discuss the quest for better lives. Speakers will focus on quality-of-life research generally and discuss both the...
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The #ConnectingClimateMinds Global Online Hub now has translation features! Go to hub.connectingclimateminds.org and choose your language in in the bottom left! Explore in your language Explora en tu idioma استكشف بلغتك Explore dans ta langue
The home page of the Connecting Climate Minds site, in Spanish.
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The #ConnectingClimateMinds Global Online Hub offers resources and a supportive network to help you find others to collaborate with in the fields of climate change and mental health. Visit the Hub and sign up to collaborate hub.connectingclimateminds.org
Illustration in blue colours shows people working together under a sky with clouds and birds
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Here's a fab opportunity to join the communications team at Imperial's Institute of Global Health Innovation & focus on the work of climate cares! Apply for this paid 12-week post, starting in July: 🌍💙Communication & Events Trainee ( #ClimateChange & #MentalHealth) imperial.ac.uk/global-healt...
Smiling trainees and IGHI Team Members
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
For #InternationalWomensDay we're listening to Outrage & Optimism ep 235: 2Female Leadership Can Unlock Systemic Change" Listen here! 🎧 www.outrageandoptimism.org/episodes/fem... #lunchtimelisten #podcast #women #climatecrisis
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Female Leadership Can Unlock Systemic Change (International Women's Day 2024)
Browse all episodes of Outrage + Optimism.
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
#ConnectingClimateMinds published toolkits to help researchers and actors conduct research, translate evidence to policy and meaningfully involve people with lived experience in climate & mental health research. 💙 hub.connectingclimateminds.org/research-and... Take a look... ⤵️
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Connecting Climate Minds Hub
Catalysing a global research community at the intersection of climate change and mental health
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Climate Cares joined the Global Mental Health Asia conference last month to contribute to global discussions on the mental health impact of climate change and reconnect with Connecting Climate Minds family! #ConnectingClimateMinds #GMHasia2025 www.duke-nus.edu.sg/sdghi/our-wo... 🧵
Dr Emma Lawrance (2nd from left) with #ConnectingClimateMinds colleagues Sena, Renzo, Tris, Derek and John stand in front of Global Mental Health in Asia Symposium bannerPanellists sit in chairs at Global Mental Health in Asia symposium:
Dr John Aruta, Niaya Igarashi and Dr Christina Cruz with Dr Emma Lawrance
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Researchers, policy makers, and those who care about climate and health must collaborate to understand and address the relationship between our planet's changing climate and our #MentalHealth Find out more on the hub: hub.connectingclimateminds.org #ConnectingClimateMinds #ClimateChange
Smiling group of the Connecting Climate Minds team pose outside
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The #ConnectingClimateMinds Global Online Hub is the go-to place for toolkits, stories, case studies and research and action agendas on the interconnections between #MentalHealth & #ClimateChange See our Global Research & Action Agenda⤵️ hub.connectingclimateminds.org/research-and... #ClimateAction
Image of the agenda cover. Text reads "Downloadable PDF version" and shows the languages it's available in: English: English
Arabic: العربية
Spanish: Español
Portuguese: Português
French: Français

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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
What does a serious mainstream #climate movement look like? Join the Climate Majority Forum, 15-16 March for workshops, inspiring presentations, music, sharing experiences, plus discussions of difficult questions in the climate movement. www.tickettailor.com/events/clima... #ClimateAction
People with arms around each other.
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Happening today! Free Youth Support Space for 18-25 year-olds, thanks to the Climate Psychology Alliance @climatepsychol.bsky.social Register now ⤵️
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Sign up to the Global Online Hub to collaborate in the connected fields of Climate Change and Mental Health. #ConnectingClimateMinds hub.connectingclimateminds.org #ClimateChange #MentalHealth #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis
Illustration shows people connected by a line around the world, with a brain in the background.
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
📑We are thrilled to announce the publication of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics’s report, focused on the intersection of #ClimateChange, #Health and #Ethics. Learn more about this project we contributed to and the key ethical recommendations below: www.nuffieldbioethics.org/news-blog/ne...
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New report calls for ethical consideration to be more systemically utilised in climate and health policy decision-making - Nuffield Council on Bioethics
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) has published a new report highlighting how policy and decision makers in the UK could better navigate the intersection between climate change and health, if t...
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