CBM Global (2022)
The impact of climate change: From people with disabilities in the places we work
This document captures the perspectives of people with disabilities who have been affected by climate change in the countries we work, and documents how CBM Global is responding and contributing to inclusive climate action.
Humanity & Inclusion (2023)
Persons with disabilities and climate change in Nepal: Humanitarian impacts and pathways for inclusive climate action
This report by Humanity & Inclusion (HI) seeks to understand the unique challenges faced by people with disabilities in Nepal due to climate change, capturing their perspectives through surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions. The report calls for disability-inclusive climate action and offers key findings and recommendations.
Pacific Disability Forum (2022)
Disability and Climate Change in the Pacific: Findings from Kiribati, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu
This report highlights the underexplored impact of climate change on people with disabilities in Pacific island nations. The research examines the negative effects of climate change on aspects like agriculture, fishing, food security, water access, and health for individuals with disabilities in Kiribati, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu. The study reveals that increasing climate-related disasters and exclusion from migration intensify the risks and challenges faced by people with disabilities, particularly in terms of livelihoods and household food security. The report calls for inclusive climate action that involves meaningful participation of individuals with disabilities in preparedness, adaptation, and mitigation efforts, addressing both existing and emerging risks.
Ursula Grant/CBM UK (2022).
CBM UK Policy Paper: Disability Inclusive Climate Action
Inclusive climate action builds resilience and mitigation in ways that support governments and other organisations to realise their international human rights obligations. Relevant international legislation is already in place to enable disability-inclusive and responsive climate action, yet this broad vision has not yet fully made its way into mainstream climate action.
The paper identifies a number of constraints inhibiting inclusive climate action, and examines the interlinkages between climate change and disability, illustrating the disproportionate impact on people with disabilities living in poor communities who have done the least to contribute to climate change.
DICARP, IDA, and GLAD (2021)
Towards COP26: Enhancing Disability Inclusion in Climate Action
This document highlights the disproportionate impact of climate change and the possible adverse impacts of climate mitigation and adaptation activities on persons with disabilities. It also proposes measures to ensure the inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in climate-related decision-making.
This resource was presented at the 26th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26), to inform State parties and governments about their responsibility toward disability-inclusive climate action.
Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research (C3ER) & BRAC University (2021)
Study on Disability inclusive Climate Change Adaptation (DiCCA)
This study sought to understand the impacts of climate change-induced hazards and disasters in the Southkhali Union of Bangladesh, focusing on persons with disabilities. The results of the study also explored the gaps in the inclusion of persons with disabilities in adaptation measures and the scope and opportunities for inclusion of persons with disabilities in adaptation measures to Climate Change.
Water For Women (2021)
Making the Critical Connections between Climate Resilience and Inclusive WASH:Lessons from Water for Women
The report features 12 case studies from Water for Women partners working on projects in the Asia-Pacific that are helping to build climate resilience through inclusive and sustainable WASH programs and research. It also outlines recommendations from the partners for strengthening climate resilience for inclusive WASH at different levels, recognising that achievement of climate-resilient, inclusive WASH depends on gender, disability and socially transformative practice in the WASH sector.
UNHCR, iDMC & IDA (2021)
Disability, Displacement and Climate Change
80 per cent of persons with disabilities live in low and middle-income countries, many of which are highly climate vulnerable. For example, 54.3% and 27% of the adult populations of Afghanistan and Syria respectively have a disability. Climate change may lead to a higher risk of forced displacement through an increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as cyclones and drought, as well as environmental degradation that impacts livelihoods and survival. People with disabilities face heightened protection risks and barriers to inclusion and are likely to have specific, additional needs related to forced displacement in the context of disasters and climate change.
This paper identifies four key points to improve disability-inclusive approaches to disaster displacement:
1. Participation is key.
2. Better data is needed on the prevalence, location, needs and resources of displaced persons.
3. Accessibiity is a precondition for the inclusion of people with disabi
Inclusive Futures (2021)
Evidence Digest on Climate Change: Issue paper and Guide to promoting disability-inclusive climate change
This evidence digest includes a guest blog on prioritising disability inclusion in climate action, and the latest evidence and guidance on disability inclusion, as of 2021. This includes programme learning, the impacts of COVID-19, and finance for disability inclusion.
Global Action on Disability (GLAD) Network (2021)
Promoting Disability-Inclusive Climate Change Action
Persons with disabilities remain largely excluded from decision-making processes and plans to address and prevent climate change and the responses to climate-related disasters and emergencies at sub-national, national, regional, and international levels. The inclusion of persons with disabilities is pivotal to ensuring that efforts to implement the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and outcomes of the Paris Agreement are inclusive. Conversely, persons and organizations of persons with disabilities must advocate for a holistic approach to disability inclusion.
This report shares the findings and recommendations from surveying the Global Action on Disability (GLAD)'s Network, guided by the disability-inclusive climate action working group, on the intersection of climate change and disability inclusion.
Plan International Indonesia & ISF-UTS (2020)
Climate Change Response for Inclusive WASH: A guidance note for Plan International Indonesia
This guidance note outlines easy-to-implement community-based activities to get local stakeholders thinking about how people are affected differently by climate impacts on WASH and how gender and social inclusion in WASH builds climate resilience.
The research project draws from a range of climate change adaptation, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and gender and social inclusion concepts and on recent research approaches for assessing climate change.
This Guidance Note provides activities and recommendations to Plan International Indonesia for integrating considerations of climate change into its existing inclusive WASH programming, which focuses on STBM (Community-led Total Sanitation).
Why inclusive-WASH? Background information on this resource [Why focus on climate change, WASH, and gender and social inclusion? Climate change is leading to water stress and insecurity, threatening the sustainability of WASH services across the Asia-Pacific. Changes in the frequency, intensity, duration, and distribution of rainfall, extreme temperature, and extreme weather events, along with rising sea levels, can directly disrupt water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services.]
Mary Keogh and Maria Paula Acuna Gonzalez (2020)
Climate Change: This Century’s Defining Issue: a working paper by CBM Global.
This report highlights a lack of inclusion, representation and investment in people with disabilities in relation to climate change. It also cites positive examples of progress, for example how organisations representing persons with disabilities in the Pacific and Latin America are engaging in climate change.
Recommendations in the report set out key actions to ensure that people with disabilities and their representative organisations are not left behind in the global, national and local movements advancing climate justice.