Advancing disability-inclusive climate research and action, climate justice, and climate-resilient development

Penelope J. Stein, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Michael Ashley Stein, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: mastein@law.harvard.edu.
Nora Groce, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA; International Disability Research Centre, University College London, London, UK.
Maria Kett, International Disability Research Centre, University College London, London, UK.
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Willliam P. Alford, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Jayajit Chakraborty, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Siri H. Eriksen, Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
Anne Fracht, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Luis Gallegos, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA; The United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Quito, Ecuador.
Shaun Grech, Community Based Inclusive Development Initiative, CBM, Bensheim, Germany.
Pratima Gurung, National Indigenous Disabled Women Association Nepal, Kusunti, Nepal.
Asha Hans, School of Women's Studies, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India.
Paul Harpur, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA; TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Sébastien Jodoin, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Janet E. Lord, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA; Center for International and Comparative Law, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Setareki Seru Macanawai, Pacific Disability Forum, Suva, Fiji.
Charlotte V. McClain-Nhlapo, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
Rhonda J. Moore, All of US Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC, USA.
Yolanda Muñoz, Global Greengrants Fund, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Vikram Patel, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Phuong N. Pham, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Cambridge, MA, USA; Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Gerard Quinn, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA; Faculty of Law, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Sarah A. Sadlier, History Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Carmel Shachar, Health Law and Policy Clinic at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Matthew S. Smith, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Lise Van Susteren, Department of Psychiatry and Behavorial Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

4-1-2024

Journal

The Lancet. Planetary health

Volume

8

Issue

4

DOI

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.

Department

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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