Climate change and disability inclusion in Uzbekistan

Within the nascent field of climate change and disability studies, this report represents one of the first fieldwork-based accounts of how climate change presents heightened risks to persons with disabilities in a developing country context. The impacts of climate change will be unevenly felt within and across countries partly due to social and economic inequalities. Persons with disabilities represent 16 percent of the global population and face widespread forms of social and economic marginalization yet have received little attention in prior studies of climate change and social inequality.

This publication recommends the following action be taken to create a more inclusive approach to climate change adaptation:

• Promote social and political inclusion;
• Ease access to essential health services;
• Strengthen the social protection and enumeration of persons with disabilities;
• Improve access to the labor market;
• Improve disability-inclusive disaster management;
• Build awareness of climate change;
• Foster dignity;