Advancing disability-inclusive climate research and action, climate justice, and climate-resilient development

Globally, more than 1 billion people with disabilities are disproportionately and differentially at risk from the climate crisis. Yet there is a notable absence of climate policy, programming, and research at the intersection of disability and climate change. Advancing climate justice urgently requi...

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Published in:The Lancet. Planetary health 2024-04, Vol.8 (4), p.e242-e255
Main Authors: Stein, Penelope J S, Stein, Michael Ashley, Groce, Nora, Kett, Maria, Akyeampong, Emmanuel K, Alford, Willliam P, Chakraborty, Jayajit, Daniels-Mayes, Sheelagh, Eriksen, Siri H, Fracht, Anne, Gallegos, Luis, Grech, Shaun, Gurung, Pratima, Hans, Asha, Harpur, Paul, Jodoin, Sébastien, Lord, Janet E, Macanawai, Setareki Seru, McClain-Nhlapo, Charlotte V, Mezmur, Benyam Dawit, Moore, Rhonda J, Muñoz, Yolanda, Patel, Vikram, Pham, Phuong N, Quinn, Gerard, Sadlier, Sarah A, Shachar, Carmel, Smith, Matthew S, Van Susteren, Lise
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate Change
Disabled Persons
Human Rights
Humans
Mental Health
Resilience, Psychological
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Summary:Globally, more than 1 billion people with disabilities are disproportionately and differentially at risk from the climate crisis. Yet there is a notable absence of climate policy, programming, and research at the intersection of disability and climate change. Advancing climate justice urgently requires accelerated disability-inclusive climate action. We present pivotal research recommendations and guidance to advance disability-inclusive climate research and responses identified by a global interdisciplinary group of experts in disability, climate change, sustainable development, public health, environmental justice, humanitarianism, gender, Indigeneity, mental health, law, and planetary health. Climate-resilient development is a framework for enabling universal sustainable development. Advancing inclusive climate-resilient development requires a disability human rights approach that deepens understanding of how societal choices and actions—characterised by meaningful participation, inclusion, knowledge diversity in decision making, and co-design by and with people with disabilities and their representative organisations—build collective climate resilience benefiting disability communities and society at large while advancing planetary health.
ISSN:2542-5196
2542-5196
DOI:10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00024-X