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Women everywhere are using their voices to take leadership and call for action on climate change.
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Women everywhere are using their voices to take leadership and call for action on climate change.
The policy priorities of the recently appointed Minister of Environment and Climate Change.
Countries took steps to accelerate a more gender-responsive approach to climate action.
Attempts to tackle crisis fail because gender issues are not addressed, report finds.
Civil society campaigners have raised concerns over commitment to gender equality and tackling climate change.
These teenagers are juggling activism with schoolwork and personal time.
We must be relentless in our collective fight against inequality and patriarchy.
New initiative training African & European scientists to use gender lens to help African smallholders adapt to climate shifts.
The study, published in Nature Climate Change in December 2019, found that high temperatures cause a spike in birth rates.
Senior figures in most of ten international humanitarian agencies have listed climate change & violence against women and girls.
Women and Gender Constituency statement on the conclusion of COP25.
Women and Gender Groups Applaud Gender Action Plan at COP 25.
Gender-based violence may be more likely on a heating planet.
Creative gender-responsive climate and environment actions key to achieving Paris Agreement Goals.
Seeing the link between violence against women and girls and the resilience of communities to disasters or environmental crises.
Climate change will have a profound effect on people in supply chains and the communities in which they operate.
2018
A day dedicated to gender discussions which has been held at every international climate conference for the past seven years.
“Gender and climate are inextricably linked,” said environmentalist and author Katharine Wilkinson.
Panel discussed the impacts of climate change that force women to move, but also put them at disproportionately at risk.
With a swiftly changing climate comes rapidly rising sea levels, more frequent storms, and rising inequality.
We are missing important ways gender impacts people’s experiences with climate change.
Government agencies and NGOs collaborate to empower Bolivian women to take on a greater role in their communities.
IPCC report emphasises the role of women in climate management, but only around 30 per cent of the report’s authors were women.
Panel organisers promise to change policy after Climate Home News analysis finds there are significantly more men than women.
A sexist remark at a recent meeting prompted some soul-searching among the world's top climate scientists.
Climate change has devastating consequences for women in particular.
"Climate Leaders’ Summit: Women Kicking It on Climate" hosted by Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change.
Despite its shortcomings, the act brings up an important conversation.
The country's women, traditionally responsible of farming, are demonstrating resilience to the effects of climate change.
Behind Uganda’s lush beauty, climate change is looming large.
Mary Robinson’s new book highlights frontline activists coping with a new reality.
The Center For Girls' Education is giving impoverished girls new opportunities.
Improving education of women and girls is one of the top solutions to addressing climate change.
"The environmental and LGBT movements have more in common than you might think."
Women are more likely than men to be affected by climate change, studies show.
Experts say warming will further fuel natural disasters, mass displacement, child marriage, and conflict.
She's a woman president from a small island state convening the world's first zero-carbon, virtual heads-of-state gathering.
"Empowered women are not only critical for the environment, but also crucial to the global economy."
Carbon Brief reveals the mix of nationalities and genders across the authors, as well as the institutions they represent.
Without sufficient understanding of such gender and social dynamics, a project risks excluding or even doing harm to people".
It’s time Congress passed a Women and Climate Act.
Bhutan’s first study on gender and climate change finds that climate issues increase existing inequalities.
2015
Workshop brought together social, environmental, and legal scholars and practitioners—including indigenous women—to discuss WPS.
To meet the SDGs and climate change goals, Bangladesh must educate and empower young girls and boys to become leaders.
In a recent study, we found that extreme weather and unpredictable seasons disproportionately weaken the agency of women.
Sahia details the ways climate change and environmental degradation has changed her home, family, and work.
Women and men differ in their specific land-use strategies and preferences of crop types and motivations.
As an iterative, participatory process, NAPs present considerable opportunities to incorporate gender-responsive approaches.
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