Category: Climate Justice

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From Awareness to Action

Ensuring climate and crisis response that works for all

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Mental Health and Climate Change

When a global crisis and planetary emergency collide

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Climate Change Is a Disability Issue

How to advance disability-inclusive climate practices, from classroom engagement to inclusive policy

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Describing Disability Climate Justice at the G7 Ministerial Meeting

Professor Michael Stein urges G7 leaders to take disability-inclusive climate action

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People with Disabilities Taking Action on Climate Change

HPOD’s new Easy Read primer empowers disability climate activists

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Understanding the CRPD in the Context of Climate Risks and Emergencies

COSP17 side event highlights states’ obligations in the Inter-American Human Rights System

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Disability-Inclusive Climate Action, Research and Development

Global Disability Climate Justice Working Group urges researchers and policymakers to meet the moment

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Advancing Disability Climate Justice in the Courts

Assessing strategies for including persons with disabilities through litigation around the world

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U.S. Government’s Fifth National Climate Assessment Highlights Outsize Climate Risks for Persons with Disabilities

Learn more at the upcoming NCA5 Public Engagement Webinar on Human Health & COVID-19

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Promoting Disability-Inclusive Climate Action through Litigation

HPOD and allies urge Inter-American Court on Human Rights to take notice of evolving international standards

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Ensuring Disability Inclusion in the Global Climate Action Agenda

Call to action ahead of the 28th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Towards Disability-Inclusive Climate Resilience

What researchers can do to close the disability climate change equity gap

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Disability and Climate Change

Call for Digital Symposium Submissions

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Disability Climate Justice

Towards Evidence-Based Research on Disability and Climate Change

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Disability-Inclusive Climate Action

Lessons from the Historic 2022 Flooding in Bangladesh

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Disability, Human Rights, and Climate Justice

The urgent need for disability-inclusive climate action

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Climate Change and the Right to Health of People with Disabilities

Lancet piece urges greater disability inclusion in climate change mitigation and adaption measures

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COP26 Climate Change Summit Inaccessible to Wheelchair Users

What it says about the intersection of disability rights and climate change

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