Resources
There is a range of brilliant resources being developed around disability and the climate crisis, and we have gathered some of those here.
Research
Disability and Climate Change Public Archive
A project that “bears witness to the harms disabled people face amidst climate disruption – and it documents the wisdom disabled people bring to navigating this crisis. The stories in the archive are fresh conversations with disability-identified activists, advocates, artists, first responders, policymakers, and other communal leaders”.
Disability Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme
A research project that “brings together scholars and activists from around the world to generate, co-produce, share, and translate knowledge on how efforts to combat the climate crisis can be designed and implemented in ways that respect, protect, and fulfill the rights of disabled people”.
Networks
The Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Network is a consortium of like-minded Organisations of Persons with Disabilities and ‘mainstream’ and disability-focused development and relief organisations. With an aim to secure the active participation, and meaningful contribution, of persons with disabilities in policy and practice.
Sustained Ability is a disability led network working with grassroots movements and organisations on disability and climate justice. They convene the Disability and Climate Network, and have been providing disabled leadership in the global climate movement, and within the UNFCCC since COP23.
Organisations
CBM Global Disability Inclusion
CBM Global partners with global and regional Organisations of Persons with Disabilities. You can find a range of resources on their website, including key events, briefing papers and reports sharing experiences of disabled people across the Global South.
Sustain Our Abilities
A climate change non-profit organisation aiming to transform climate adaptation and mitigation in ways that “improve the independence, health and wellbeing of people with and without disabilities”.
European Disability Forum
An organisation conducting important work on disability and climate action, recognising that disabled people are often disproportionately impacted by climate change yet rarely considered in climate action.
International Disability Alliance
The Alliance have produced a range of resources on climate change and disability rights, from an action call and guide to promoting disability-inclusive climate change to various events and reflections.
Multimedia
The Right to be Rescued
A short documentary (above) that tells the stories of disabled people affected by Hurricane Katrina. It aims to raise awareness of the needs and priorities of disabled people in emergency planning and to make sure these needs are met.
Sins Invalid
Listen to a three-part podcast series produced by disability justice based performance project, Sins Invalid. The series reflects on the connections between climate justice and disability justice.
Cripping Climate Adaptation: Disability Justice and Climate Change is a short film co-directed by Karina Cardona, who works at the nexus of disability, environmental justice and climate justice.
You can also listen to an interview with Karina conducted as part of the Enabling Commons podcast.
Guides and more
The Community Climate Action Programme in Bristol enabled the co-production of the world's first community climate action plan by and for disabled people, coordinated by Emma Geen, formerly of the Bristol Disability Equality Forum. You can access the plan and linked resources online.
Disability Debrief is a guide ‘for the disability community and disability curious’, examining world news through a disability lens. Disability Debrief’s climate work is led by Áine Kelly-Costello, a disabled storyteller and campaigner based in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Protest for All is a guide, written by disabled climate activists, that offers ideas for anyone protesting on climate change to make what they do more accessible; maximising opportunities to bring the skills of the disabled people’s movement to the climate movement.