In 2018, when Greta Thunberg sat outside the Swedish Parliament building alone to strike about climate change, little did she know she would trigger one of the world's biggest protest movements. These actions have caused a generation of children and young people (CYP) to become more aware and willing to defend our planet from climate change. However, this has not been without its repercussions, climate awareness has caused increased levels of Eco Distressa normal emotional response to environmental degradation (Climate Psychology Alliance, 2021)surrounding the lack of action by international governments to mitigate climate change, alongside witnessing more extreme weather events which both directly and indirectly affect CYP in the present and their future.Hickman et al.'s. 2021 paper provides strong evidence that CYP across the globe are experiencing high levels of Eco Distress. This is notable in both Global North and South countries. Sixty per cent of the 10,000 CYP surveyed stated that they were very or extremely worried is a key issue for the future of young people's well-being (Hickman, 2021). However, even though CYP across the world are concerned about climate change, there is growing inequality between CYP in the Global South and the Global North.Citizens living the Global South are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change compared to the Global North. They experience more extreme weather events, for example, fires, floods and droughts, and have limited economic resources to mitigate the effects of climate change (IPCC, 2021). However, many Global South countries particularly on the African continent, were previous Anglo-French colonies during the 19th century. Global South citizens suffered socially, economically and environmentally under colonial rule, and continue to suffer in the postcolonial era, due to Global North practices of racialisation, orientalism and the enforcement of epistemological violence and Eurocentrism (Cesaire, 1972).The effects of Global North's actions against the Global South are not only political and economic but also relate to research and psychiatry, which impacts upon Eco Distress research and solutions to alleviate distress. From this, the reciprocation of clinical research within a Global North context could be deeply problematic as research often does not acknowledge historical and current Global South traumas which are intrinsically linked to colonial violence and relations (Mills & Fernando, 2014). This is particularly relevant in terms of environmental destruction whereby colonial powers during