An inclusive EU Green Deal for Europe
This document highlights the measures that should be included to ensure the EU deal is inclusive, building a better society for us all, in Europe and around the world.
Persons with disabilities are often disproportionately impacted by climate change. Similarly, climate action seldom takes the requirements of persons with disabilities into account, and the representative organisations of persons with disabilities (DPOs) are rarely involved in decision-making processes about this work.
The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change took place between...
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Read moreThe exclusion of representative organisations of persons with disabilities (DPOs) from decision-making processes on climate action has serious consequences:
All of these impacts are magnified for people who experience intersecting forms of discrimination, including older people, women, children, indigenous peoples, and underrepresented groups of persons with disabilities, such as persons with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities.
Some opportunities brought by disability inclusion in climate action (that also benefit all of society):
To achieve these benefits, climate policy must be developed and implemented with the meaningful participation of persons with disabilities, through their representative organisations.
This document highlights the measures that should be included to ensure the EU deal is inclusive, building a better society for us all, in Europe and around the world.
This policy was developed by assessing the current situation, by discussing with our members and by trying to identify the key areas where EDF can have an impact.
This article presents some of the reasons why climate justice is not only a human and legal requirement, but also a step that is bound to benefit society as a whole.
This article, starting from the July 2021 Europe flooding, makes a case for accessibility and meaningful participation of persons with disabilities in Disaster Risk Response.
Statement from European Disability Forum (EDF) during meeting of Joint Committee on Disability Matters, Houses of the Oireachtas, Ireland, on Thursday, 28 April 2022.
A blog post reflecting on the positives and negatives of COP 26 and providing suggestions on how to make the future COPs more inclusive and accessible.
Produced by the European Disability Forum and CBM Global Disability Inclusion. Participants in the video came from all regions of the world to share on two aspects: