Please contact Michelle Burchill for the z oom link: burchill@allard.ubc.ca
Despite forming 15% of the world’s population\, people with disabilities have been largely excluded from effo rts to tackle the climate crisis. Climate adaptation and disaster risk read iness policies have generally failed to strengthen the adaptive capacity of people with disabilities\, thereby exposing them to disproportionate rates of mortality in severe weather events such as cyclones and heatwaves. Many measures aimed at reducing carbon emissions have only reinforced social in equities by failing to consider the dependence of people with disabilities< br />on certain carbon-intensive products and services and the barriers the y face in accessing low-carbon alternatives.
Citing examples drawn fr om Canada and around the world\, Dr. Jodoin will demonstrate that climate a ction can and should be designed and implemented in ways that meaningfully integrate the disability community and its human rights. By empowering peop le with disabilities as knowers\, makers\, and doers in the climate movemen t and thereby enhancing the equity and effectiveness of climate solutions\, disability-inclusive climate action can generate multiple benefits for the disability community and society as a whole.
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