Psychological Resilience & Climate Resilience
Join us for a talk by Gary Belkin about psychological resilience and climate change. Gary is Director, Billion Minds Institute, and Chair, COP2 (cop2.org). A psychiatrist who approaches mental health as a building block of social policy and progress, he recently founded Billion Minds as a “think-action tank.” The intention of Billion Minds is to link mental health to problems of great scale, specifically to the climate crisis, and to safeguarding sustainable societies through a humane social climate. COP2 was one outcome of that work—a global network aligned about converging growing activity and learning on climate-psychological resilience connections and putting them to global scale. An initial effort from that was to produce an implementation Roadmap in collaboration with the UNFCCC Race to Resilience and aligned partners to incorporate the goal of building capacity to promote psychological resilience within the global goal of promoting climate resilience to 4 billion people by 2030.