Background:

This session provides insights into building resilience through interventions on the mental health impacts of climate changes. It explores the intersection between climate, mental health and youth. 

Objectives:

• Introduce participants to the current mental health landscape and associated implications due to climate change

• Share real world experiences from youth leaders as well as tools and resources for advancing climate mental health resilience

• Gather youth inputs in shaping the Global Resilience Observatory

• Explore the elements of effective climate community building and strengthening

• Highlight key capacities needed for youth to build resilience in the context of climate mental health

The Session was organized by:

Billion Minds Institute - accelerates and supports work that takes seriously the social, psychological, and emotional dimensions of climate and environmental change—both their impacts and the foundational capacities needed for transformative response.

Climate Cares Centre - is the world’s first research centre dedicated to climate change and mental health and wellbeing. We work to protect mental health and strengthen psychosocial resilience in a changing climate and enable climate action that benefits mental health and wellbeing.

UN Youth Office - as the first dedicated entity for youth affairs within the United Nations Secretariat, the UN Youth Office by fostering meaningful, inclusive, and impactful participation of youth in decision-making processes, focuses on empowering young people as agents of transformative change in addressing global challenges in the areas of sustainable development, peace and security, human rights and humanitarian action.

Youth4Capacity Programme - building the capacity of young people to act on climate change while promoting active exchange of experiences and addressing the linkages between climate action, the SDGs, and the three Rio conventions