On the ground at COP25: Disability Rights featured in ECO

Are We Leaving Disabled Persons Behind in the Climate Crisis?

Article by Jason Boberg & Kera Sherwood-O’Regan in ECO #2 / COP25

“Today is the International Day of Disabled People, which revolves around the theme ‘Promoting the participation of Persons with Disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda’. The latter is an agenda that involves leaving no one behind. Yet, disabled people are already being left behind in the climate crisis and the irony of this is not lost to us. As COP25 begins, there is no better time to recognise the rights of the disabled community - a community that needs to be at the forefront of our minds when discussing human rights under the UNFCCC process and the Paris Agreement, including, but not limited to Article 6, Loss & Damage, NDC development and implementation, COP location and relocation …”