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

Authors

• 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.

APA Citation

Stein, Penelope J.; Stein, Michael Ashley; Groce, Nora; Kett, Maria; Akyeampong, Emmanuel K.; Alford, Willliam P.; Chakraborty, Jayajit; Daniels-Mayes, Sheelagh; Eriksen, Siri H.; Fracht, Anne; Gallegos, Luis; Grech, Shaun; Gurung, Pratima; Hans, Asha; Harpur, Paul; Jodoin, Sébastien; Lord, Janet E.; Macanawai, Setareki Seru; McClain-Nhlapo, Charlotte V.; Mezmur, Benyam Dawit; Moore, Rhonda J.; Muñoz, Yolanda; Patel, Vikram; Pham, Phuong N.; Quinn, Gerard; Sadlier, Sarah A.; Shachar, Carmel; Smith, Matthew S.; and Van Susteren, Lise, "Advancing disability-inclusive climate research and action, climate justice, and climate-resilient development" (2024). GW Authored Works. Paper 4791.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/gwhpubs/4791

Department

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences