Events2Join

Climate crisis worsens gender inequality in coastal communities


Health threats of climate change: from intersectional analysis to ...

Intersectional impacts of climatic changes are producing unforeseen physical and mental health challenges such as acute depression, stress, severe malnutrition ...

Global Warming Is Particularly Bad for Women-Led Families, Study ...

New UN research shows that climate change disproportionately erodes income in households led by women in poorer countries. But there are ways to fix it.

Resilience strategy tackles climate change, governance, gender ...

An innovative action research project in Mexico has created a gender-sensitive, local climate change strategy, which recognises how women ...

Food Systems and Gender: The Groundbreaking Role of Rural ...

Globally, the prevalence of food insecurity is higher among women than among men, further worsened by climate change and extreme weather events.

Climate Change - Amnesty International

People in developing nations, especially coastal countries and small island states · Communities suffering from environmental racism · Marginalized women and ...

Gender and Water in a Changing Climate - Dr. Farhana Sultana

For the dead and dying in the coastal areas of Bangladesh in the after- math of Cyclone Sidr, climate change was perhaps already a reality. The irony and the ...

Countries need to cooperate on migration as climate crisis worsens

"Millions of people are projected to be displaced by sea-level rise in the next decades, and 2 billion could be exposed to extreme heat beyond ...

Chapter 8: Poverty, Livelihoods and Sustainable Development - IPCC

By threatening underlying gender inequalities exacerbated by climate impacts, such as access and control to productive inputs and reinforcing social-cultural ...

10 countries at risk of climate disaster

Like most humanitarian crises, women and girls are the most vulnerable to climate change in the Central Sahel. A lack of access to water during ...

Celebrating Women's Role in Climate Adaptation | Samdhana.org

With the worsening climate crisis, many of these women have had to bear an additional burden. “Crop failure and drastically declining catches have ...

Gender and Climate Issues in Africa - SpringerLink

Women are particularly vulnerable to the challenges of climate change due to cultural norms, inequalities in gender roles, and socio-economic ...

Gender, Climate Change and Health - IRIS

... women in coastal areas are being diagnosed with pre- eclampsia, eclampsia and hypertension. Although local doctors and community representatives have blamed ...

Women & Climate Change News - Inter Press Service

Coastal erosion has been aggravated by climate change and has already destroyed more than 500 houses in the town of Atafona in southeastern Brazil. Movements ...

Effects of Climate Change - Impacts and Examples - NRDC

Sea level rise also harms the environment, as encroaching seawater can both erode coastal ecosystems and invade freshwater inland aquifers, ...

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - Climate Change - International ...

... climate change, wage inequality, gender wage gaps, ... operating in coastal communities ... Climate Change & Gender Diverse Populations: Sexual Orientation, LGBTQ ...

In-depth Q&A: How does climate change drive human migration?

The authors note that most people – as well as their crops and livestock – clustered in areas with an average annual temperature of 11-15C, ...

Climate change: A hunger crisis in the making - World - ReliefWeb

Worst-hit are those already experiencing marginalisation and gender-based inequalities – especially women and girls, communities already living ...

Queer and Fighting for Climate Justice in Southeast Asia

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change now recognizes that gender inequality is one of the contextual conditions that compound ...

Climate change remains worse for women — but it doesn't have to be

At COP16 in 2010, the Cancun Agreements acknowledged that gender equality and the effective participation of women are important for all aspects ...