Such topics are recurrently targeted by specific symposia on Environmental Psychology, which are typically organised within the annual national conference of the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP congress, usually held in the second half of September each year). Similarly, such an activity is pursued at the international level too, within some of the major scientific events organised by the relevant scientific associations within the Environmental Psychology community (such as, IAPS, IAAP, and the like).

On the professional side, a working group on “Environment, Territory, and Tourism” has been created by the Italian association of professional Psychologists – namely the Gruppo di Lavoro “Ambiente, Territorio e Turismo” at the Consiglio Nazionale dell’Ordine degli Psicologi (CNOP) – where three academicians have been nominated in order to work with three psychologists from the professional community, with the aim of implementing environmental psychology in the professional domain. The group produces documents to support environmental psychology dissemination and professional practice (for example, a document presents a definition of such a professional profile; other documents create agreements with relevant stakeholders’ associations; another document is a White Paper on Nature Based Therapies upon request of specific stakeholders).

Moreover, Community Psychology focused its 9th world conference hold in Naples on the 21-24 September 2022 on “Community Psychology: Community Regeneration. Bonds and Bridges among People and Environments” dealing with climate change issues. This huge event chaired by Caterina Arcidiacono and opened by Christoph Steinebach, EFPA President, brought to Italy psychologists of 45 countries from the 6 continents.

The workshop “What can community psychologists do to promote just transformations in the face of climate change?” held by ECPA highlighted what climate justice and sustainable transformations mean and how to intervene in the processes of shaping our collective futures.  During the conference Pamela Clinton, the Senior Director for the Office of International Affairs at the American Psychological Association (APA) highlighted with her keynote the organizational efforts to engage psychologists in addressing the climate crisis and the global contributions of psychology to face the current environmental crisis. Last but not least the interactive improvisational theatre “Quality of life: environment, sea, earth and wellbeing” was performed. Improv is an art in which an ensemble of actors creates improptu stories and there we infer that Improv mindset helps expanding the sense of a safe environment as well as the buildup of a welcoming life environmental context.