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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent

DARK SECRETS: Disabled people systematically ignored on climate crisis says study - The Real Truth

A wheelchair outside a nursing home where 34 people died in the floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina in 2005
A wheelchair outside a nursing home where 34 people died in the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

People with disabilities are being “systematically ignored” by governments around the world when it comes to the climate crisis, even though they are particularly at risk from the impacts of extreme weather, research has shown.

Few countries make provisions for the needs of people with disabilities when they make plans for adapting to the effects of climate breakdown, and none mention disabled people in their programmes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the first comprehensive review of the issue.

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