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The climate emergency holds profound and immediate threats to our health and wellbeing. The World Health Organization (2021) has estimated the impact on the social and environmental determinants of health; direct damagecosts to healthcare may reach two to four billion per annum by 2030.

A recent Lancet report highlighted inequities in the climate crisis, illustrating how socioeconomically disadvantaged and vulnerable communities will be overburdened (Romanello et al., 2021). Correspondingly, others depict climate change as a threat amplifier, which will exacerbate existing disparities (Kjellstrom & McMichael, 2013). Psychiatrists have identified similar paradigms, with marginalised groups disproportionately affected (Cianconi et al., 2020; Hayes et al., 2018). People living in detention constitute some of the most vulnerable individuals in society and climate change will worsen their already precarious …