Integrating Mental Health into Climate Change Adaptation Policies

National adaptation plans outline countries’ plans to build their resilience to current or projected climate change impacts. Climate adaptation has a crucial role to play in ensuring better preparedness, prevention, and response to climate change and its impacts on mental health. However, mental health has historically been absent from discussions on climate adaptation.

To address this, United for Global Mental Health, in collaboration with the Climate Cares Centre, published a report titled “Integrating Mental Health into Climate Change Adaptation Policies”. The report provides an overview of how mental health currently features into national adaptation policies and provides concrete recommendations and suggestions on how to better integrate mental health into national adaptation policies.