The anti-saccade task is a prominent measure of cognitive/attentional control, specifically prepotent response inhibition, which is assessed via the anti-saccade effect (ASE). That is, increased saccade latencies and saccadic error rates are observed when participants are instructed to perform eye movements away from appearing stimuli (anti-saccade) rather than towards appearing stimuli (pro-saccade). Prior studies showed that emotional stimuli modulate attention allocation in anti-saccade tasks by influencing inhibitory control. Here, we examined to what degree images of climate change consequences elicit attentional anti-saccade patterns similar to those triggered by negative emotional stimuli. To this end, we systematically compared ASEs in saccade latencies and error rates across three image categories: climate change, neutral, and negative images. Importantly, we further investigated whether individual climate anxiety and environmental attitudes influenced ASEs for climate change images but not negative images. In line with our hypotheses, we observed that ASEs for climate change images increased compared to neutral images with increasing individual climate anxiety scores, showing that individual anxiety levels modulate inhibitory control based on emotional stimuli. Importantly, however, the impact of climate anxiety on ASEs was not specific to climate change images, but also occurred (to a lesser degree) for negative images. These findings suggest that climate change images are perceived as emotionally-negative and are capable of influencing attentional mechanisms, potentially due to their association with anxiety-provoking content. This supports the idea that individual emotional and cognitive states, such as climate anxiety, can impact on how we attend to climate change consequences.