What People With Disabilities Know About Surviving Climate Disasters: an article from Bloomberg

By Naomi Gupta

A recent article from Bloomberg entitled “Disabled people are being left out of the climate conversation”, highlights how people with disabilities have long been left out of the discourse surrounding climate policy as well as the disproportionate risks they face with respect to climate change. The article also discusses how recent environmental disasters in Guam, such as Typhoon Mawar, served as a turning point to initiate change in this respect.

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