“I advocated for disabled people on multiple fronts: now we’re scaling that impact”
Our Newcastle experience: Turning barriers into momentum. Accessible climate leadership.
At Newcastle’s Climate Change Forum, we encountered what many disabled people recognize as normal challenges and why we need accessible climate leadership:
- 🗺️ “Hard to navigate around” the Helix complex, making us late
- ⛰️ An uphill tour to the Energy Centre that was inaccessible to many
- 🎤 The constant need to advocate for disability inclusion in climate discussions
“I advocated for the needs of disabled people on multiple fronts: difference in energy needs and usage, disability and the strong correlation with poverty and therefore costs, and also the need for accessible information to always be available.” read full description of the experience here
This experience reinforced why we’re re-building DCAF: not as opposition, but as the essential space where disability leads climate solutions for accessible climate leadership.
You’ll need to be an Ally or a Member to join…
Join Now: Choose your role
As a disabled
climate leader
Become a Difference member to directly shape solutions within DCAF:
- Co-design accessible
climate strategies - Answer critical questions like: “How do we save carbon?” on our terms
- Develop real-world solutions for “Medical plastic challenges”
As an
ally/organization
Commit to disability-inclusive climate action:
- Attend workshops on
implementing accessibility - Amplify disability leadership in
climate spaces - Co-produce DCAF (and other) events with Difference members
Your next opportunity to lead
No navigation guessing games
Real-time access provisions
Your expertise centred
“We’re proving disabled people can take the lead in positive environmental work”
At our next forum, we’ll collaborate on:
- “How can we get involved in climate action beyond recycling?”
- “What about solar panels?”, accessibility-first approaches
- “How do we increase biodiversity?”, inclusive strategies
