'It kills me inside': Why activists are sounding the alarm on climate anxiety

Rahman is a voluntary climate activist of a Bangladeshi youth organisation for raising awareness and a participant of the upcoming COP27 conference. Photos: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP

From Bangladesh to Britain to Nigeria, many young campaigners on the frontlines of the global fight for climate justice now face a new problem: the impact the crisis is having on their mental health.

As thousands of delegates converged at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to discuss ways to tackle the environmental emergency recently, AFP interviewed three youth activists around the world who spoke candidly of their experience of climate anxiety.