Document Type
Article
Journal Title
The Lancet Planetary Health
Volume
8
First Page
e242
Publication Date
4-2024
Abstract
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—characterized by meaningful participation, inclusion, knowledge diversity in decision making, and co-design by and with people with disabilities and their representative organizations—build collective climate resilience benefiting disability communities and society at large while advancing planetary health.
Recommended Citation
Janet E. Lord & et al.,
Advancing Disability-inclusive Climate Research and Action, Climate Justice, and Climate-resilient Development,
8
The Lancet Planetary Health
e242
(2024).
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