What we do / Community Climate & Nature Action / Climate & Disability
Climate & Disability
Working with Disabled people on climate and nature action to ensure they are involved in action and decision-making.
Through our Climate and Disability programme, we’re working directly with Disabled people on local climate and nature action.
Disabled people are one of the groups that will be hurt most by climate change and the loss of nature. Yet Disabled people have been largely left out of action and planning. This has not only led to climate work making new barriers for Disabled people but meant the movement has missed out on the expertise and ideas that Disabled people can bring.
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Climate action plan
In 2022 the world’s first community climate action plan made by and for Disabled people was launched as part of our Community Climate & Nature Action Project. Throughout 2024/2025 our Climate and Disability programme worked with a forum of Disabled people to refresh the priorities within the plan.
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West of England
From Autumn 2026, local Disabled People’s Organisation (DPO) the West of England Centre for Inclusive Living (WECIL) will be leading a commission to engage with the Disabled community across the West of England region and expand the existing the plan and priorities.
Get in touch with the WECIL team.
Advocacy
The climate and nature priorities of the local community of Disabled people are actively advocated for by dedicated members of the Bristol CCNA Network and the Community Leadership panel (WECIL, Ruth Nortey) and through Community Advocate Emma Geen.
Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership is on the advisory board of the national Sensing Climate project.
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