Disability Climate Caucus - Advocacy Brief

Disability-inclusive climate action: priorities for COP31

Persons with disabilities face heightened risks from climate change, alongside barriers to accessing early warnings, evacuation, shelter and essential services. Yet their participation in climate decision-making remains limited.

The Disability Climate Caucus’s advocacy brief sets out priorities for COP31 to embed disability rights across climate policy, finance and implementation. It calls for formal recognition of the Caucus as an official UNFCCC constituency, meaningful participation of organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs), and full accessibility across climate negotiations.

The brief outlines practical recommendations on just transition, adaptation, gender equality, national climate commitments, climate education and climate finance. These include accessible early warning systems, inclusive green jobs, dedicated funding and direct access to flexible resources for OPDs.

At its core is a call to turn recognition into action with clear budgets, measurable outcomes and persons with disabilities shaping the decisions that affect their lives.

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