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It is important that people with disabilities' rights and needs are included in climate negotiations

“People with disabilities make up 15 percent of the world's population. But when you look at negotiations on climate measures, you hardly find anything about our needs and rights. " Says Vladimir Cuk, Executive Director of the International Disability Alliance (IDA).

In IDA's article “Climate change is our crisis too! Persons with disabilities demand COP26 break the exclusion cycle ” emphasizes the importance of states taking into account the human rights of people with disabilities when making political decisions against climate change.

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