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The Climate Question: Are disabled people forgotten in climate disaster plans?

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01/10/2023 GMT

Are disabled people forgotten in climate disaster plans?

BBC World Service - The Climate Question, Are disabled people forgotten in climate disaster plans?

How do we include disabled people in preparations for extreme weather events?

Access All’s Emma Tracey investigates complaints that Governments aren't including disabled people in their plans for extreme weather events.

About 16 percent of the world’s population is thought to be disabled, but they are still 2 to 4 times more likely to be injured or killed in a natural disaster than those who are not disabled.  
 
Emma Tracey, from the BBC’s Access All podcast, investigates for The Climate Question, meeting disabled people who have dealt with extreme weather events first hand. As well as those who are researching and enforcing change, even in the places you’d least expect it 
 
Emma is joined by: 

Sébastien Jodoin, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law of McGill University, Canada  
Kera Sherwood-O'Regan, an Indigenous and disabled climate justice advocate, New Zealand  
Gaele Sobott,  writer, living in Sydney, Australia 
Kemi Yemi-Ese, visual artist from Austin Texas, US  
Setareki  Macanawai CEO, Pacific Disability Forum based in Fiji 
 
Presenter: Emma Tracey, BBC Access All 
Producers: Octavia Woodward and Jordan Dunbar 
Series Producer: Simon Watts 
Editor: China Collins 
Sound Engineer: Nigel Appleton 
Production Coordinators: Sophie Hill, Jacqui Johnson

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