Stein, P. J. S., Stein, M. A., Groce, N., Kett, M., Akyeampong, E. K., Alford, W. P., Chakraborty, J., Daniels-Mayes, S., Eriksen, S. H., Fracht, A., Gallegos, L., Grech, S., Gurung, P., Hans, A., Harpur, P., Jodoin, S., Lord, J. E., Macanawai, S. S., McClain-Nhlapo, C. V., . . . Van Susteren, L. (2024). Advancing disability-inclusive climate research and action, climate justice, and climate-resilient development. The Lancet Planetary Health, 8(4), e242–e255. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2542-5196(24)00024-x
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—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.