Research and resources, shaped by those doing the work

We're a community of researchers, practitioners, and thinkers committed to disseminating climate psychology widely, not just within our own professional circles. Through our flagship journal Explorations in Climate Psychology, our podcasts and talks, our library, and the contributions of members from across the world, we work to build a shared understanding of how psychology can meet this moment.

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Explorations in Climate Psychology - the CPA journal

Navigating the inner and external work (relational and socio-political) that this moment calls on us to do, Explorations in Climate Psychology is CPA's flagship journal, published published annually. We aim to be inclusive of the different ways people experience and engage with the climate and ecological crisis and welcome a wide range of forms: peer-reviewed research, analytical articles, reviews, interviews, reflections, testimonies, poetry, art, and lightly edited conversations.

Edited by CPA's Explorations Group, the journal explores current and emerging themes in the field, from climate grief and trauma to colonialism, decolonisation, the limits of Western rationality, and what it means to "stay with the trouble." The current editors of Explorations are noted in latest issue.

For guidelines for contributors to the journal, please visit this link. If you would like to contact the editorial team you can do so here.

We welcome contributions from inside and outside the CPA Community.

Find the latest call out here and guidelines for contributions here. The journal is open access and contributions can be used and quoted as long as they are referenced.

The Explorations group also offers online events with authors and other leading voices, which explore journal topics further.

See what's coming up

If you are interested in joining the editorial team (we particularly welcome young people and those of the Global Majority),  or wish to get in touch for another reason you can email them here.

One Resilient Earth

Hope & resilience
Youth & intergenerational
Climate and ecological emotions

One Resilient Earth

Climate Youth Resilience

Climate Youth Resilience

Climate Courage Journals

Climate Courage Journals

Teach the Future

Teach the Future

Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK)

Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK)

Youth Climate Collaborative

Youth Climate Collaborative

Another Way

Another Way

Climate Mental Health Network

Climate Mental Health Network

We also publish pieces from our journal via our Substack account. 
Or just 'Follow 'Explorations' on Substack"

Where to start

Climate psychology is a young field with deep roots. If you're new to it, the resources below are good places to begin: foundational guides, podcasts and videos, defining texts, and the essential reading that practitioners and researchers return to again and again.

The Handbook of Climate Psychology

CPA's foundational guide to the field, freely available to download. The handbook introduces the key concepts, frameworks, and questions that shape climate psychology, and is used widely as an entry point for practitioners, researchers, and the curious.

Download the handbook

Climate Crisis Conversations

Our podcasts offers an accessible, conversational entry point into climate psychology, featuring CPA practitioners, researchers, and friends in dialogue about the climate and biodiversity crisis and the full range of emotional responses to it.

Community Engagement

The importance of community involvement in climate action.

How Can Communities Make a Difference?

Climate Policy and Action

Discussing policies aimed at combating climate change.

What Policies Are Effective?

Impact of Deforestation

Understanding how deforestation contributes to climate change.

Why is Deforestation a Problem?

The Role of Renewable Energy

Exploring renewable energy as a solution to climate change.

How Can Renewable Energy Help?

Understanding Climate Change

A brief overview of climate change and its impacts.

What is Climate Change?

What our members are sharing

Climate psychology is built collaboratively, by members for members and beyond. The work below reflects what people across our community are thinking about, researching, writing, and making right now. These are member contributions, not CPA publications, voices from across the alliance.

Thinking Space
Climate and ecological emotions
Climate justice & decolonising

Hosting and facilitating a Climate café listening circle (CCLC) training

Do you want to help build resilience in your community? Climate Cafe LIstening Circle (CCLC) Training builds the confidence, skills, and peer community to facilitate your own circles. Delivered as a structured programme over three sessions in closed cohorts, with ongoing supervision and support afterwards.

April 23, 2026
Harriet Sams
Jennifer Fendya, PhD
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Peer supervision

Hosting and facilitating a Climate café listening circle (CCLC) training

Do you want to help build resilience in your community? Climate Cafe LIstening Circle (CCLC) Training builds the confidence, skills, and peer community to facilitate your own circles. Delivered as a structured programme over three sessions in closed cohorts, with ongoing supervision and support afterwards.

May 11, 2026
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Working group

Hosting and facilitating a Climate café listening circle (CCLC) training

Do you want to help build resilience in your community? Climate Cafe LIstening Circle (CCLC) Training builds the confidence, skills, and peer community to facilitate your own circles. Delivered as a structured programme over three sessions in closed cohorts, with ongoing supervision and support afterwards.

May 21, 2026
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The Climate Crisis Digest is our monthly publication, usually a short piece written by members.

The name Digest reflects the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion's insight that experience needs to be digested in order to be thinkable, especially when it is hard to bear (hence CPA's approach to difficult truths). The Digest style is not academic or polemical, more journalistic and exploratory in tone. That requires reflection by the author, to invite reflection in readers. Reflection here means inquiring into our emotional experience so as to more fully engage with the meaning of what is written.

The DIgest is edited by Thulsi Prabakaran.

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Our library is a collection of open-access research and resources, written or recommended by CPA members.

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One Resilient Earth

Grows the climate resilience of young people, sustainability professionals and educators through transformative learning journeys, climate emotions circles, and training on climate anxiety and trauma, including a dedicated CLARITY programme for teachers and educators.

Organisations & networks
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Climate Youth Resilience

A global initiative unlocking young people's resilience, capacities, insight and leadership in the climate crisis, offering tools, training and an Ambassador programme spanning community building, advocacy, policymaking and inner-led change.

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Climate Courage Journals

Journalling resources dedicated to building individual and community resilience in the face of climate change impacts.

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Teach the Future

Youth-led UK campaign for mandatory, integrated climate and ecological education, tabling a student-written Climate Education Bill in Parliament and pushing for curriculum reform, teacher training and climate-ready school estates across all four UK nations.

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Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK)

UK education charity created by the student movement in 2019, working across all stages of education to embed sustainability and support students and young people to lead on climate and nature action, including hosting the Teach the Future campaign.

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Youth Climate Collaborative

Global, youth-led organisation creating pathways to involve and sustain young people aged 35 and under in the climate movement.

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Join our community of thinkers, researchers, and reflective practitioners

CPA is more than a publisher or a library. We're a working community of people thinking together about climate psychology. Our members participate in regular Thinking Spaces, contribute to research groups, edit the Explorations in Climate Psychology Journal, maintain the library, and bring their own work into shared conversation. Research at CPA is collaborative, generative, and grounded in practice.

Why join:

  • Monthly Thinking Space

  • Research Group

  • Opportunities to Publish

  • Intergenerational buddying

  • Student and Young Members Group

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The library is built by and for the climate psychology community. Use it, add to it, and help us grow it.

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