Women as key players in climate change solutions
Policies that do take a gender perspective often do so in ways that draw on assumptions and simplistic generalisations. For example, climate adaptation policies too often treat women only as vulnerable beneficiaries rather than rights-holding citizens who need to be recognised for the agency, skills and experience they can contribute. There is much to be learnt from innovative, inspiring gender-aware approaches that are already emerging at community, national and regional level and that are rooted in women and men’s lived experiences of climate change. The resources below look at approaches to both adaptation and mitigation that could be replicated elsewhere or drawn upon to develop more gender aware, people-focused climate change policies at the global and national levels.
- The Hartwell paper: a new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009
- G. Prins / Institute for Science, Innovation and Society - University of Oxford, 2010
- Fifteen years of climate policy’s failure to reduce GHG emissions is attributable to the structurally flawed UNFCCC/Kyoto model, which – according to the authors of this paper – crashed in late 2009. The authors desc...
- We know what we need. South Asian women speak out on climate change adaptation
- T. Mitchell; T. Tanner; K. Lussier / ActionAid International, 2007
- Women will suffer most from climate change, because they are poorer. They have less access to financial resources, land, education, health and other basic rights than men, and are seldom involved in decision making processes. Women ar...
- Women as key players in climate 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 the same. Global debates therefor...
- Gender and Climate Change: Gender Experiences from Climate-Related GIZ Projects
- J. Krauss / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2011
- The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development has made gender-specific challenges and responses to climate change a priority. The Ministry’s Development Policy Action Plan on Gender (2009–2012) calls...
- Participatory Learning and Action 60. Community-based adaptation to climate change
- International Institute for Environment and Development, 2009
- It is now become clear that, for poor people, climate change adaptation approaches based on local knowledge and strategies are bound to be more successful than top-down initiatives. The articles in this issue on participatory learning...
