The missing metric in climate action.
1 in 5 people affected by climate disasters experience long-term psychological distress, including PTSD, anxiety, or depression.
Despite the risks, less than 1% of global climate adaptation funding is allocated to mental health interventions.
Over 70% of climate-health policies globally do not mention mental health at all.
Our Mission
Climate change is a health crisis not only for our bodies but also for our minds. Yet while physical injuries, waterborne diseases, and food insecurity dominate emergency response plans, the mental health impacts of floods, droughts, heatwaves, and displacement remain dangerously overlooked. Anxiety, grief, PTSD, and depression silently follow climate disasters, especially in vulnerable communities with little access to care.
Mind the Climate exists to change that. We design tools, frameworks, and policy pathways that help governments, clinics, and responders build mental health into climate adaptation and disaster recovery. Our mission is to ensure that psychological resilience is no longer a blind spot, but a building block of climate action.
What do we do?
Every implementation starts with a rapid assessment of mental health vulnerabilities tied to climate events, like floods, droughts, or wildfires. We identify high-risk groups such as displaced persons, frontline workers, youth, and women.
We support the co-creation of mental health responses by strengthening local networks. This includes mobilising clinics, peer groups, counsellors, shelters, and spiritual care hubs.
Our work culminates in institutionalising mental well-being within climate adaptation frameworks. We offer frameworks on integrating mental health into disaster protocols, allocating budgets, shaping legal tools, and scaling best practices.
