With no specific planning for people who may be in wheelchairs or dependent on medications when disasters hit, many people face a crisis on top of a crisis.
There are a number of reasons behind this, but first consider that none of the 192 signatories to the Paris Agreement evenin their climate mitigation plans. And when a disaster hits, there is little to no infrastructure to support people with increased needs.
that disabled people are impoverished at more than twice the rate of people without disabilities, which means they often live in shabbily built affordable housing units that are usually on less desirable flood- and heat-prone lands.
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