From Exclusion to Leadership: Shaping Climate Futures with Disabled Wisdom | sustained ability - climate and disability network (SDCN)

​Join a powerful roundtable where disabled and Indigenous leaders share how their lived experiences and expertise are shaping global climate policy. Together, they reflect on building momentum for disability inclusion and justice within the UNFCCC.

​SPEAKERS

• ​Jason Boberg (Moderator) | Convener, SustainedAbility Disability & Climate Network and Director, Activate Agency

• ​Kera Sherwood-O'Regan (President, Disabled Persons Assembly New Zealand)

• ​Pratima Gurung (Executive Director, National Indigenous Disabled Women Association Nepal)

• ​Graeme Reed (Strategic Advisor,  Assembly of First Nations (AFN), Canada)

​DESCRIPTION

​This roundtable dialogue brings together key disabled and Indigenous disabled leaders to explore the intersections of climate justice, disability inclusion, and Indigenous rights. Drawing on their lived experiences and expertise, they will reflect on the journey to embed disability within UNFCCC negotiations and strengthen recognition of intersectional disability rights in global climate policy. Through storytelling and collective reflection, the discussion shares the whakapapa / journey that laid the foundations for a Disability Caucus within the UNFCCC, highlighting how disabled and Indigenous wisdom continues to shape more just, inclusive, and ambitious climate solutions leading into COP30 and beyond.