Increasing evidence has linked climate change to worsening mental health and experts are pushing for change.
Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly says the impact of climate change on mental health is real and the effects have been seen recently with bushfires and increased cyclone activity.
Dr Cybele Dey, a child and adolescent psychiatrist says "the federal government must act as young people will be affected by more extreme weather events than past generations leading to worsening mental health".