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47 Ecology L.Q. 73 (2020)
A Disability Rights Approach to Climate Governance

handle is hein.journals/eclawq47 and id is 79 raw text is: A Disability Rights Approach to Climate Governance Sebastien Jodoin, * Nilani Ananthamoorthy ** and Katherine Lofts *** Despite international recognition of the greater vulnerability of persons with disabilities to climate change, disability issues have received little attention from practitioners, policy makers, and scholars in this field. As countries move forward with measures to combat climate change and adapt to its impacts, it is critical to understand how these efforts can be designed and implemented in ways that can respect, protect, and fulfill the human rights of disabled persons. Drawing on the human rights model of disability enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, we set out a disability rights approach to climate governance that identifies the differential impacts of climate change for disabled persons and outlines the principles, obligations, and standards for designing and adopting accessible climate mitigation and adaptation policies and programs. On the whole, we argue that States should identify and pursue synergies between the realization of disability rights and the pursuit of initiatives to decarbonize their economies as well as prepare their societies against future climate impacts. In addition to fulfilling the rights of persons with disabilities and fostering a more inclusive world, disability- inclusive climate solutions can have resonant outcomes that can enable a greater share of the population to contribute to the emergence of carbon neutrality and enhance the climate resilience of society as whole. DOl: https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38W37KW48 Copyright © 2020 Regents of the University of California. * Sebastien Jodoin is an assistant professor in the McGill Faculty of Law, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and the Environment. He is also a member of the Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism and an associate member of the McGill School of Environment and the Max Bell School of Public Policy. This Article was presented at the 7th Sabin Colloquium on Innovative Environmental Law Scholarship, a panel of the Law & Society Association and a faculty seminar of the McGill Faculty of Law. We are grateful to the discussants and participants in these conferences as well as to Margaretha Wewerinke for providing feedback and comments on earlier drafts of this Article. ** Nilani Ananthamoorthy is a BCL/JD candidate in the McGill Faculty of Law and a research associate with the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and the Environment at McGill University. *** Katherine Lofts is a research associate with the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and the Environment at McGill University. 73

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