There are many current and potential consequences of climate change. Natural disasters including storms, forest fires, and heat waves will become more intense and happen more frequently. Slow-onset changes and one-off disasters will create displacement and migration. Poverty will grow as climate change harms economies and hampers the flow of goods and services. And hunger will increase due to growing poverty and disasters' impact on farms. These impacts will have dramatic consequences for health and disproportionately harm people with disabilities.
In some cases, there are either no or very few resources connecting certain climate impacts to disability and/or health. When that's the case, sections below will include resources that make the best connections possible. For example, there are few resources on climate migration and disability – so we also include resources on climate and migration, and resources on disability and migration in general. |
Natural Disasters
Climate Change
Disability: Stakeholders & Resources
Health: Stakeholders & Resources
- USGS: How can climate change affect natural disasters?
- UN: Climate and weather disasters surge fivefold over 50 years, but early warnings save lives – WMO report
- NOAA: Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
- Carbon Brief. Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world
Disability: Stakeholders & Resources
- The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies
- FEMA Office of Disability Integration and Coordination
- Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Network
- National Council on Disability: Emergency Management
- The Rights of People with Disabilities in Disasters & Public Health Emergencies. World Institute on Disability. Accessed 1/10/2023
- Engelman, A. et. al., Global Disability Justice In Climate Disasters: Mobilizing People With Disabilities As Change Agents. Health Affairs 41:10 (2022) 1496-1504.
- Frank, T. Majority of disabled people never go home after disasters. E&E News. Jan. 6 2023
Health: Stakeholders & Resources
- CDC: Health and Safety Concerns for All Disasters
- AIHA: Health and Safety Issues in Natural Disasters
- Leoppold, C. et. al., Public health implications of multiple disaster exposures. Lancet Public Health 2022; 7: e274–86
- Raker, E. et. al. Mitigating Health Disparities After Natural Disasters: Lessons From The RISK Project. Health Affairs 39:12 (2020) 2128-2135
Extreme Heat
Climate Change
Disability: Resources & Reading
Health: Stakeholders & Resources
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Climate Change Indicators: Heat Waves
- Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). Resilience Strategies for Extreme Heat
- US Climate Resilience Toolkit. Extreme Heat
Disability: Resources & Reading
- Human Rights Watch. Canada: Disastrous Impact of Extreme Heat (2021)
Health: Stakeholders & Resources
Migration
Climate Change
Disability: Stakeholders & Resources
Health: Stakeholders & Resources
- UNHCR: Climate change and disaster displacement
- International Organization on Migration: Migration, Environment and Climate Change
- White House: Report on the Impact of Climate Change on Migration
- United Nations OHCHR: Report on internal displacement in the context of the slow-onset adverse effects of climate change
- Propublica: Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration
- Migration Data Portal: Environmental Migration
- Fruedenberg, R., et. al., Buy-In for Buyouts: The Case for Managed Retreat from Flood Zones. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (2016)
Disability: Stakeholders & Resources
- UNHCR, IDMC and IDA: “Disability, Displacement and Climate Change” FAQ
- Sarah L. Bell, Tammy Tabe & Stephen Bell (2020) Seeking a disability lens within climate change migration discourses, policies and practices, Disability & Society, 35:4, 682-687
- UNHCR: Persons with disabilities.
- United Nations ENABLE: Refugees and migrants with disabilities
- Center for American Progress. Crossing the Border: How Disability Civil Rights Protections Can Include Disabled Asylum-Seekers
- Migration Data Portal: Disability and human mobility
- Vidal, E. Data on disability and migration – what do we know? Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (blog). 2022
Health: Stakeholders & Resources
- CliMigHealth
- IOM: Health and Migration, Environment, Climate Change
- Migrant Clinicians Network: Climate Change and Migration
- Special Issue: Climate and Environmental Change Impacts on Health and Health Care --The Context of Food Insecurity, Conflict and Forced Migration. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. (2021)
- Bharadwaj, R. and Huq, S. Climate-induced migration and health issues. A toolkit for policymakers. Working Paper (2022) International Institute for Environment and Development
- Ruyssen, I. and Scheerens, C. The Climate Change, Migration, and Health (Care) Nexus: Implications for Low-income Regions. Our World (2020)
- Krzesni, D. and Brewington, L. Climate Change, Health, and Migration: Profiles of Resilience and Vulnerability in the Marshall Islands. East-West Center (2022)
- Schwertdle, P., et al. The health impacts of climate-related migration. BMC Medicine 16:1 (2018)
Poverty and Hunger
Climate Change
Disability: Resources
Health: Stakeholders & Resources
- Multiple authors & organizations. Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation
- Global Citizen. Why Climate Change and Poverty Are Inextricably Linked
- Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty (with link to longer report, “Shock Waves”)
- Islam, S., And Winkel, J., Climate Change and Social Inequality. UN Department of Economic & Social Affairs. (2017)
- World Hunger Education Service: Hunger and Climate Change
- Mukerji, R., Climate Change and Hunger. Global Hunger Index. (2019)
- Janssens, C., Havlík, P., Krisztin, T. et al. Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 829–835 (2020)
Disability: Resources
- CBM: What does climate change have to do with poverty and disability?
- Goodman, N., Morris, M., & Boston, K. Financial Inequality: Disability, Race and Poverty in America. National Disability Institute (2019)
- Altiraifi, A. Advancing Economic Security for People with Disabilities. Center for American Progress. (2019)
- Banks LM, Kuper H, Polack S. Poverty and disability in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. PLoS One. 2017 Dec 21;12(12)
- Schwartz, N., Buliung, R. & Wilson,K. Disability and food access and insecurity: A scoping review of the literature. Health & Place 57, 107-121 (2019)
Health: Stakeholders & Resources
- Jessel, S., Sawyer, S. and Hernandez, D. Energy, Poverty, and Health in Climate Change: A Comprehensive Review of an Emerging Literature. Front. in Public Health 7:357
- How Climate Change Impacts Health for Impoverished, Vulnerable Communities. Partners in Health (2022)
- Manderson, L. How climate change is adding to the health risks of poor people. GreenBiz (2022)
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