Gender and climate change

Gender and climate change: research gaps, policies and best practices

This paper outlines key linkages between climate change and gender inequality, focusing particularly on adaptation and mitigation policies and practices. The authors note that while there is a wealth of literature on gender-based issues related to environment and disasters, there are few references to gender and climate change.

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Women at the frontline of climate change: gender risks and hope: ( United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2011); Women are often in the frontline in respect to the impacts of a changing climate. Globally the world is seeing increasingly frequent droughts and floods which are having economic but also profound soc...
Gender perspectives on climate change: ( N. Rachael / WomenWatch, UN , 2008); Participation of women and gender experts in the climate process is crucial for developing just, effective and efficient measures of climate protection. Climate protection needswomen's expertise, thei...
Can disaster risk reduction be gender-sensitive?: ( , 2009); This paper is a policy guideline on gender mainstreaming which presents practical advice on how to institutionalise gender-sensitive risk assessments, implement gender-sensitive early warning systems,...
Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Climate Change: ( E Skinner / BRIDGE , 2011); Responses to climate change tend to focus on scientific and economic solutions rather than addressing the vitally significant human and gender dimensions. For climate change responses to be effecti...
Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction: A training pack: ( M Ciampi / Oxfam , 2011); Deepening poverty, environmental degradation, urbanisation, and the effects of climate change are making more women and men vulnerable to disasters than ever before. But some groups within society exp...
Climate changes are affecting India’s households and responsibility for adaptation is falling on women’s shoulders: ( R. Øvstegård;K. R. Kakumanu;A. Lakshmanan / Bioforsk , 2010); This report outlines important gender issues in climate change adaptation and agriculture, presenting preliminary findings of an analysis carried out in India.
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Gender Responsive Strategies on Climate Change: Recent progress and ways forward for donors: ( A Otzelberger / BRIDGE , 2011); Gender equality is an important precondition for successful climate change adaptation, and transition to low-carbon alternatives in developing countries. In order for this transition to be effectiv...
Factoring in gender in African climate change adaptation: ( G. Adeniji (ed) / Arid Lands Information Network , 2011); Gender often dictates who gains and who loses in environmental disasters: where women lack basic rights, more will die from natural disasters than men; where they enjoy equal rights, the death rate is...
Training Manual on Gender and Climate Change: ( Lorena Aguilar / Global Gender and Climate Alliance , 2009); Until recently it was assumed by those involved in climate change programmes and policy development that men and women experience climate change in similar ways. But recognition is now growing that...
Climate Change and Gender Justice: ( G Terry (ed) / Oxfam , 2009); Awareness of the complex and dynamic links between gender relations and climate change is growing fast in gender and development (GAD) circles and among women’s rights activists, but in mainstre...