Mental health in nationally determined contributions: current stare and opportunities for integration

To date, only 3% of NDCs include a reference to mental health, according to WHO data.

To address this, United for Global Mental Health published a report titled “Mental Health in Nationally Determined Contributions: Current State and Opportunities for Integration”. The report provides an overview of how mental health currently features into NDCs and provides a roadmap of possible entry points for mental health into NDCs. 

Key highlights:

The majority of NDCs include mental health in the context of highlighting the negative impacts of climate change on mental health but very few expand on which actions and responses countries are implementing in order to safeguard mental health from the impacts of climate change.

The submission of ambitious mitigation targets as part of the NDCs is fundamental to protect mental health from the impacts of climate change.

From agriculture to transport, from education to waste; addressing climate change across sectors within NDCs can help unlock extensive co-benefits for mental health.

You can read the report here.