Disability inclusive climate finance - Session #1: How to operationalize disability inclusion in climate investment projects
World Bank C Building
Time
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (GMT-5)
About
The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) utilizes climate financing through multilateral development banks to help low- and middle-income countries accelerate low-carbon, climate-resilient development. CIF places social inclusion at the center of its efforts and supports transformational change and climate-smart development for everyone. CIF supports an inclusive and just climate-smart future, focusing on diverse partnerships that de-risk green markets and unlock additional investments and financing.
Persons with disabilities are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change, but they have been largely invisible in climate negotiations and their needs are not systematically considered in climate investments. Without targeted actions, climate investments risk contributing to structural inequalities that reinforce disability exclusion. Despite international recognition of the greater vulnerability of people with disabilities to climate change, disability issues have received little attention from practitioners, policy makers and scholars in this field. As a result, practical guidance on integrating disability inclusion into climate investments is missing.
To address this knowledge gap, CIF has been collaborating with CBM Global’s Inclusion Advisory Group and the Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub) to develop a series of knowledge products.
This event would serve as an opportunity to launch DISABILITY INCLUSION IN CLIMATE FINANCE: A background paper for the disability inclusion approach for climate investment funds
The event would aim to facilitate the dialogue between practitioners working on climate projects within MDBs, as well as other development partners/members of GLAD and representatives of civil society organizations focused on disability inclusion.
These discussions would inform sector specific guidance materials focusing on a) a just energy transition; (b) climate-smart cities; and (c) nature-based solutions, currently being drafted.