Disability inclusion in climate policy: Briefing paper for COP30. Belém 2025

This briefing paper outlines key priorities for ensuring that persons with disabilities are meaningfully included in climate policy and action. Developed for COP30 in Belém, it highlights five areas where disability inclusion is particularly important: just transition, climate adaptation, gender, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and climate finance.

It calls for accessibility, disability-inclusive data, meaningful participation of organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs), and accountability to be systematically embedded across climate policies, financing and decision-making. It also calls for the Disability Caucus to be recognised as a full Constituency within the UNFCCC.