Sensing Climate is placing disabled people at the forefront of the climate crisis.
Our research will embed the expertise of disabled people in new strategies to navigate a changing world.
A changing climate.
The climate crisis is affecting everyday life.
It’s asking many of us – human and otherwise – to cope in the face of more frequent heat waves, droughts, floods and storms. Worries about life and loss in an unpredictable climate are growing, shifting our sense of home and how we live in our communities.
Reframing disability.
Disabled people make up 16% of the global population and are particularly at risk of climate disruption.
In part, this is due to the damaging impacts of extreme weather events and air pollution on existing health conditions. However, it is also because the priorities and experiences of disabled people have not been included in climate action.
A new approach.
With disability comes a need for adaptability and creativity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Sensing Climate aims to place these skills at the heart of strategies designed to navigate the climate crisis. We hope this will help to counter the burnout of people and planet, build adaptive capacity, and reconfigure a sense of home in increasingly unfamiliar, fragile landscapes.
We are aiming to create
Disability-inclusive climate adaptation
Sensing Climate seeks to create safe, enabling and caring spaces to support human exchange and connection.
We are bringing people together to explore opportunities to make life better and more socially inclusive through our responses to the climate crisis, rather than deepening or creating new forms of inequality and injustice.
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