[PDFlist] FW: Save the date: September 22 - "Towards Disability-Inclusive Climate Action"

[Setareki Macanawai]

From: DIsability and climate action research program <dicarp.law at mcgill.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2020 7:04 AM
Cc: Yolanda Munoz, Dr. <yolanda.munoz at mcgill.ca>
Subject: Save the date: September 22 - "Towards Disability-Inclusive Climate Action"

Dear members of the DICARP Advisory Panel:

I am writing to let you know of a virtual event entitled "Towards Disability-Inclusive Climate Action" that McGill University and its partners are organizing during Climate Week NYC on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020 from 4:00-6:00 (EST). You will find the full details below, including the registration link. You are warmly encouraged to participate and we would be grateful if you could share this announcement in your organizations and networks.

Thank you,

Prof. Sébastien Jodoin
Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and the Environment
McGill University, Faculty of Law

Professeur adjoint et Titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les droits humains et l’environnement
Université McGill, Faculté de droit

Office/Bureau 519, New Chancellor Day Hall
3644 Peel St, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9 Canada
sebastien.jodoin-pilon at mcgill.ca<mailto:sebastien.jodoin-pilon at mcgill.ca>
www.sjodoin.ca


TOWARDS DISABILITY-INCLUSIVE CLIMATE ACTION
Climate Week NYC - Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020 from 4:00-6:00 (EST)

To register to attend this virtual event, please click here.<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQF8FSXdm1MSNgY9IpjPAGVYNLwq05LefyZ9BDsk7NRuPGxQ/viewform>

Overview:

<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQF8FSXdm1MSNgY9IpjPAGVYNLwq05LefyZ9BDsk7NRuPGxQ/viewform>Although persons with disabilities constitute 15% of the world’s population, they have been largely invisible to policymakers, experts, and activists working in the field of climate change. As a result, initiatives aimed at reducing carbon emissions, such as the development of mass transit systems or bans on single-use plastics, are often inaccessible to persons with disabilities and further reinforce social inequities. Moreover, climate adaptation and disaster risk readiness efforts generally fail to strengthen the capacity of persons with disabilities to cope with climate impacts, resulting in disproportionate rates of mortality and morbidity. These challenges are felt most acutely by the disability community in developing countries as well as by groups that are affected by intersecting forms of systemic discrimination, such as women, minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and children with disabilities.

As the world moves forward with measures to tackle the climate crisis, it is critical that these efforts fully and effectively include and empower persons with disabilities. In this virtual event, persons with disabilities from all over the world will discuss the challenges and opportunities for developing disability-inclusive responses to the climate crisis. Among other topics, they will address the disproportionate ways in which climate change harms disabled persons; the lessons learned with disability inclusion in other fields that could apply to climate change; the role of disability rights in responding to climate change; and the contributions of the disability community to resolving the climate crisis.


Chair: Yolanda Muñoz, McGill University

Featured speakers:

Pratima Gurung, Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network & Nepal Indigenous Disabled Association;

Carlos Kaiser, ONG Inclusiva;

Sébastien Jodoin, McGill University;

Setareki Macanawai, Pacific Disability Forum;

Marcie Roth, World Institute on Disability;

Stefan Trömel, International Labour Organization;

Elham Youssafat, International Disability Alliance.


This event is organized by the McGill Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism, in collaboration with the International Disability Alliance, Inclusiva, the Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network, the Nepal Indigenous Disabled Association, and the World Institute on Disability. This event will mark the launch of McGill University's Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme and will promote the work of the Thematic Group on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Action established by the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities.


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