As War Rages in Ukraine, UN Warns of Climate Change’s Impact on Mental Health

As Russian troops advanced on Ukraine’s capital city and Vladimir Putin put his nuclear forces on high alert, the international agency tasked with maintaining global peace issued a report raising alarm over the threat of climate change, including its effect on mental health.

The Sunday report from the United Nations asserted that much of the world has reached a point of no return in the fight to resist “climate impacts,” with nearly half of the global population highly vulnerable to climate change. The panel identified an array of harms it says climate change has already wreaked on vulnerable populations, including damage to mental health resulting from increasing temperatures, extreme weather events, and “loss of livelihoods and culture.”  – READ MORE