This resource draws the links between gender and climate change and lays out why women need to be at the center of the climate change debate and policymaking. A must-read for activists, academics and policymakers.
Climate change is one of the most urgent issues of our time. Extreme weather and natural disasters are more common and the
results are all too real: devastating drought and floods in Africa and Asia, a deadly European heat wave, and the wreckage of hurricanes in the Americas. Despite increased media coverage and public awareness many governments have yet to act.
Unquestionably, climate change will affect everyone. But women are the most vulnerable and the best poised to curb the effects of climate change. Yet, they have remained invisible in these efforts. Governments’ main tools for tackling climate change—mitigation measures to slow down global warming and adaptation measures to decrease the consequences—are not yet reaching the most affected populations, particularly women.
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