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Climate change has a disproportionate effect on individuals with disabilities, both directly and indirectly. Individuals with disabilities are more likely to experience greater effects of climate change on humans when compared to those without disabilities. Despite this, and despite the fact that disabled people make up more than 15% of the global population, they have had minimal input and involvement in the decision-making process surrounding responses to climate change. Typically, disabled people are the most likely to be negatively affected by any form of emergency, whether it be an immediate emergency like a flood or tornado or a gradual emergency like rising sea levels, due to a lack of access to emergency resources and the difficulties imposed by limited mobility. Disabled people are also more adversely affected by climate change because a disproportionate number of disabled people live in poverty, and people who live in poverty are inherently more at risk due to climate change.