The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) has teamed up with CBM Global’s Inclusion Advisory Group and the Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub) to ensure people with disabilities are part of plans to fund climate action. On Thursday, February 15, the partners will hold a first of its kind full day event to discuss how to operationalize disability inclusion in climate investment projects.
Persons with disability are often most affected by climate change but have not been adequately represented when climate finance is discussed. CIF is leading the way and kicking off efforts to change this situation with the launch of a paper called Disability Inclusion in Climate Finance on February 15.
The launch event is a chance for experts from different groups representing persons with disability, climate funds, and multilateral development banks to come together and discuss why pragmatic and targeted disability inclusion in climate finance is so important, and how to make it happen.
World Bank’s Jennifer Sara, Global Director of the Climate Change Group, IFC’s Nathalie Akon Gabala, Director of Gender and Economic Inclusion, Ferdinando Regalía, Manager, Social Sector, Inter-American Development Bank and CIF’s Interim CEO Luis Tineo will open the proceedings. Experts from the World Bank, World Blind Union, UN Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, GDI Hub, CBM Global, and the Global Disability Innovation Hub will also join in facilitated workshops covering energy transitions, low carbon smart cities, and nature-based solutions.
The event will conclude with a debrief to map out a way forward on this crucial social inclusion focus area.