Climate change affects people with disabilities in many ways.

These resources give high-level overviews on the connections between climate change and disability. Some resources also go into deeper details.

​Organizations, Programs and Useful Websites

• Disability Inclusive Climate Action Research Program
• SustainedAbility (New Zealand-based, convenes the Disability and Climate Network)
• UNHCR: The impact of climate change on the rights of persons with disabilities
• EPA: Climate Change and the Health of People with Disabilities
• Disability & Philanthropy Forum: Connections Between Climate Change and Disability
• CBM: Disability and the Climate Crisis: Disability Inclusive Action at CBM UK
• Disabled Planet (website with resources)
• Disability Debrief: Climate Change and Disability - Resource guide and original reporting

​Government, NGO & Civil Society reports

• UNHCR: Analytical study on the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in the context of climate change (2020)
• International Disability Alliance: Disability Inclusive Climate Action COP26 Advocacy Paper
• Lewis and Ballard (CBM): Disability and Climate Change
• CBM. Climate Change: This Century's Defining Issue (link to report in article)
• Council of Canadians with Disabilities, Inclusiva, and Center for International Environmental Law. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (2019)
• Gutnik, A and Roth, M. Disability and Climate Change: How climate-related hazards increase vulnerabilities among the most at risk populations and the necessary convergence of inclusive disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Lyon: Humanity & Inclusion, 2018.
• Human Rights Watch: UN Climate Resolution Emphasizes Protection of Disability Rights
• European Disability Forum (2020). An inclusive Green Deal for Europe
• Leonard Cheshire (UK): Disability and Climate Resilience Research Project
• Cox, K. The impact of climate change & natural disaster on disabled people in Australia. 
• The Global Partnership for Disability & Development. “The Impact of Climate Change on People with Disabilities.” (2009)

Articles, Editorials and Podcast Episodes

• Marlena Chertock. The Future Is Disabled: Planning for Climate Change Must Include People with Disabilities
  
• Disability Visibility Project Podcasts Episode 63: Climate Change featuring Alex Ghenis
  
• Kosanic et al. Climate concerns and the disability community. Science Vol 366, Issue 6466 (2019)
  
• Kett & Cole (2018) Disability: A neglected issue within climate change? Dhaka Tribune
  
• Novak and Frias. Stanford Social Innovation Review (2022): Climate Change, Environmental Activism, and Disability
  

​Research and Scholarship

• King and Gregg (2021). Disability and climate change: A critical realist model of climate justice
• MacDonald, S. (2021) We are persons with disabilities? A reflexive thematic analysis of Federal Government climate change documents (University of Victoria Master’s thesis)
• Gaskin, C. J., Taylor, D., et al. Weather, Climate, and Society 9:4 (2017) Factors Associated with Climate Change Vulnerability in the Adaptive Capacity of People Disability: a Systematic Review
• Landre, A. Submission to Georgetown U’s Bioethics Research Showcase (2020). Exploring Discrimination in Climate Change Policies: Intertwining Disability Justice and Climate Justice
• Saxton, M. and Ghenis, A. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity 4:1 (2018) Disability Inclusion in Climate Change: Impacts and Intersections
• Smith, Mr & Simard, Mathieu & Twigg, J. & Kett, Maria & Cole, Ellie. (2017). Disability and Climate Resilience: A literature review. 
• Wolbring, G., & Leopatra, V. (2012). Climate Change, Water, Sanitation and Energy Insecurity: Invisibility Of People With Disabilities. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 1(3), 66–90.