I've covered gender and climate change for years - both inside and outside the UN climate process. It's disappointing to see no improvement in things like the share of women negotiators at the COP summits. But as Daisy Clague reports for Climate Home News, awareness of how warming affects women is rising - and there is growing pressure for the next set of national climate plans (NDCs) to catalyse greater inclusion and action.
In a new study quantifying how gender shapes people’s experiences of climate change, scientists at the PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research found that, by 2050, higher temperatures and changing rainfall patterns could mean women globally spend up to 30% more time collecting water. “Even when people talk about gendered climate impacts, there is very little attention on time poverty and how that affects someone’s ability to improve their life,” said Robert Carr, the PIK guest researcher who led the study.
Thanks for keeping gender top of the climate agenda even when it’s less ‘fashionable’ to focus on the cost of impact, socially and economically on women and their families.
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1wMegan Rowling and Climate Home News I agree that awareness of warming effects on women is rising and that NDCs increasingly focus on greater inclusion. But the is limited awareness of how climate policies affect women. And women are generally more negatively affected by mitigation policies than men, whereas policymakers erroneously view these impacts as gender-neutral. We address this issue in our new technical paper "Impacts of the implementation of response measures on intergenerational equity, gender, local communities, Indigenous Peoples, youth and people in other vulnerable situations" published by the UNFCCC. You can download it here: https://unfccc.int/documents/638245