Global Research and Action Agenda

The Global Research and Action Agenda for Climate Change and Mental Health

This agenda identifies the most urgent research priorities to address the needs of people experiencing and responding to the mental health impacts of climate change globally. It also identifies key principles of action to support and enable this research and to translate evidence into policy and practice (Figure 2). It is vital for researchers to understand how to appropriately enact this agenda (implementing research) and to ensure evidence meaningfully informs action (translating research to action). Conversely, policymakers and practitioners across climate and mental health must work with researchers and lived experience communities to inform their decision-making.

Figure 2: Overview of key priorities within the global research and action agenda. Research and action to implement and translate evidence are intertwined.

This agenda is informed by the ten CCM regional and lived experience agendas. It does not encompass the full details, nuance and contextualised understandings that they include. Appendix 5 presents an overview of how the global priority research questions relate to these agendas, and readers are urged to refer to the agenda(s) relevant to their context.