Climate

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Climate

The relevance of climate change and its aftermath is growing day by day. However, women’s and men’s reality of life diverts in many aspects from each other. Therefore the ways in which they are affected by the changes as well as the strategies to adapt to them are different too. The fact that women suffer from poverty and are lacking access to land, property and education in a disproportionately high manner, makes it harder for them to cope with new challenges. Additionally, according to traditional role models, women are responsible for the food and water supply of the family. Caused by climate change their amount of work is rising.

MENA

From Ignorance to Inclusion

- Gender-Responsive Multilateral Adaptation Investments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region – This study analyses how gender-responsive multilateral adaptation projects in the MENA region are, finding and discussing both best and worst practice examples. The authors demands that multilateral institutions in all their MENA adaptation projects implement gender safeguard policies consistent with existing international conventions and instruments on gender equality. Liane Schalatek, Sarah Little, Sarah Bibler, Celine Salcedo-La Vina more»

A Caring Approach to Sustainable Development: A Feminist Perspective on Why the Green Economy Concept Falls Short

- The green economy concept pays scant or no attention to the interconnected crises in the market economy and the care economy, negatively affecting women all over the world in disproportionate numbers. Daniela Gottschlich more»

Low Income Women: First Casualties of Green Economy Land Grab

- As the case of biofuel shows, in the pursuit of the green economy, rural women have already faced eviction or exclusion from land grabbed for powerful green agendas that are not their own. Nidhi Tandon more»

Democratizing Financing for Sustainable Development: Gender Equality is the Key

- Providing adequate financing resources for gender equality through more democratic, participatory and gender-responsive budget processes and financing mechanisms is key for sustainable development. Liane Schalatek more»

Investing in Women in Agriculture: Instrumentalization vs. Transformation

- While more investment in women in agriculture is needed, we should be cautious about “cutting and pasting” women into a growth model for agriculture that has increased inequality, poverty and hunger. Alexandra Spieldoch more»

Looking Through a Gender Lens: Water in the Green Economy

- A focus on women and water could provide inspiration for broader changes. Currently, it is at the intersection of poverty and water that gender issues have become most visible in development discourses. Shiney Varghese more»

From Collecting Fire Wood to Installing Solar Home Systems: Gender Equality and Women’s Access to Energy

- Energy access is particularly important for women in developing countries, due to their traditional roles and the time spent in collecting firewood, dung, crop wastes or other biomass to burn as fuel. Gail Karlsson more»

Rethinking the Climate Grant: Mobilizing Climate Finance for Women-led Adaptation Work

- Women-led climate initiatives often fail to fit comfortably within the existing conceptual approaches to climate action, making it hard for grassroots women’s adaptation work to be sufficiently funded. Azita Azargoshasb more»

Mobilizing Women’s “Power of the Purse” to Help Achieve Sustainable Consumption

- Women control or influence 65 percent of global consumer spending, which amounts to $20 trillion annually. In most countries, women are in charge of household purchasing, which accounts for more than 60 percent of all consumption impacts, once the entire life cycle of manufacturing products and providing services is taken into account. With this in mind, strategies are needed to encourage women to direct their spending to support sustainable development. Diane MacEachern more»

Study

Gender Relations and Women’s Vulnerability to Climate Change

- Recognizing the significance of inequitable gender relations for women’s vulnerability to climate change, this study analyzes if and how an adaptation measure involving a relocation program that gives titles to new public housing to women implemented in response to severe flooding in the Mexican state of Tabasco in 2007, has contributed to modifying gender relations and strengthening gender equality. Jenny Jungehülsing more»

Gender and Climate Finance: Double Mainstreaming for Sustainable Development

- Climate change is not gender-neutral. Suffering from gender-based vulnerabilities to climate change, women are more often victims of climate change than men; however, women also possess knowledge of and experiences in capacities to mitigate as well as strategies to cope and adapt, which makes them important “agents of change” in the fight against global warming. Liane Schalatek more»

Statement of cross-constituency civil society coalition of the “Friends of Gender” for Gender Considerations in the Green Climate Fund

- This paper is a first introductory joint submission of several civil society groups from the environment (ENGO) and women and gender constituencies concerned with ensuring that gender considerations are adequately considered and mainstreamed in the work of the Transitional Committee and that gender equality is taken up as a cross-cutting issue and guiding principle for the new Green Climate Fund. more»