Why women’s rights matter in COP27
2 years, 1 month ago

Why women’s rights matter in COP27

Al Jazeera  

This has been a year of climate catastrophes for every corner of the globe. New ActionAid research in Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia and Nigeria has found that climate change is also increasing gender-based violence and damaging women’s mental health. In precarious times of climate stress like this, girls are 20 percent more likely to be married early than in times of stability, putting women’s rights to education and liberty at risk. This is particularly worrying in 2022 as the impacts of climate change escalate while international support for women like Rosemary remains scarce. Climate finance needs to cover reparations for the lost years of girls’ education, address women’s lost security, and compensate for their failed crop yields.

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Putting women at centre of global climate action
1 month ago

Putting women at centre of global climate action

New Indian Express  

The COP29 climate summit going on in Baku has scheduled November 21 as ‘gender day’ to focus on women’s participation in global climate action. Only eight of the 78 world leaders participating in COP29 are women; the 2023 COP summit featured 15 women among a total of 133. The UN claims that more than four-fifths of the parties at COP …

Women and Children: The Forgotten Victims of the Climate Crisis in India
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Women and Children: The Forgotten Victims of the Climate Crisis in India

Hindustan Times  

India's climate crisis disproportionately impacts women and children, highlighting the need for inclusive policies that center their needs. The article emphasizes the importance of empowering women and children to lead climate action, as their voices are crucial for crafting solutions that are both effective and equitable. By addressing the gendered impacts of the crisis, India can ensure a sustainable future …

Climate change increases violence against women - and some disasters are more of a threat than others
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Climate change increases violence against women - and some disasters are more of a threat than others

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The link between violence against women and the climate crisis has long …

Women leaders at the forefront of SDG efforts
3 months ago

Women leaders at the forefront of SDG efforts

Hindustan Times  

Women are at the epicentre of various global challenges and continue to be disproportionately impacted by them. Gender disparities in leadership also persist across education, health care, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene sectors – where women's presence in the workforce is significant. Ensuring workplace safety: Unsafe workplaces significantly impact women’s participation and prevent a talent pipeline for leadership roles. Unsafe …

Why India must prioritise women in climate action
3 months, 1 week ago

Why India must prioritise women in climate action

Hindustan Times  

In today’s times, we all witness climate crises in some form or another in our daily lives. Second, realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of women-led development as a cornerstone of Viksit Bharat requires addressing women's vulnerability to the climate crisis. Climate crisis Historically, women have played a key role as primary caregivers and food producers in India, especially in …

The climate crisis is a sexual health and reproductive rights emergency
7 months, 3 weeks ago

The climate crisis is a sexual health and reproductive rights emergency

Salon  

In the wake of Earth Day, West Africa is facing a historic and deadly heatwave, last month was the tenth hottest month in a row in the U.S., and Americans and people across the globe are already bracing for what scientists are predicting will be yet another record-breaking summer with more extreme heat and weather events in store. Climate change …

Charge of the climate brigade: Women and activists are suing governments for failing to protect their right to life
8 months, 1 week ago

Charge of the climate brigade: Women and activists are suing governments for failing to protect their right to life

Hindustan Times  

India’s Supreme Court has, for the first time, weighed in on climate change, ruling that citizens have a right to lead a life safe from its adverse effects. Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg talks with Rosmarie Wydler-Walti, of the Swiss elderly women group Senior Women for Climate Protection The apex court was hearing a petition filed by wildlife activist M.K. …

The climate crisis is not gender neutral
8 months, 2 weeks ago

The climate crisis is not gender neutral

The Hindu  

The climate crisis is already here and does not impact everyone equally. Within small and marginal landholding households, while men face social stigma due to unpaid loans, women experience higher domestic work burdens, worse health, and greater intimate partner violence. Also, extreme weather events and subsequent changes in water cycle patterns severely impact access to safe drinking water, which increases …

Climate policies must reflect needs of women at the forefront of adversities, says economist Jayati Ghosh
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate policies must reflect needs of women at the forefront of adversities, says economist Jayati Ghosh

The Hindu  

Public policy in India, which has one of the highest gender pay gaps, pays lip service to women’s issues and while they cannot be called gender-blind, they are gender exploitative, said development economist Jayati Ghosh at a photo exhibition organised by Poovulagin Nanbargal, an environmental organisation, in Chennai, on Friday. So, let us deal with this in a way that …

Celebrating interventions by women on climate change on International Women’s Day
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Celebrating interventions by women on climate change on International Women’s Day

The Hindu  

A 34-year-old-marginal women farmer from Purulia who runs a millet café, a 38-year-old woman farmer from Jharkhand who switched to solar powered pump, and a 41-year-old cyclist from Kolkata, the stories of 15 such women was the highlight of a symposium on Climate change in Kolkata on the occasion of International Women’s Day on Friday. Officials of different consulates, representatives …

At COP28, Indigenous women have a message for leaders: Look at what we’re doing. And listen
1 year ago

At COP28, Indigenous women have a message for leaders: Look at what we’re doing. And listen

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — With a sprig of leaves and rainwater carried from her island in the Philippines, Grace Talawag delivered a prayer and a blessing for her delegation and onlookers in a negotiation hall at the United Nations climate summit. The leaves included bamboo, to represent the resiliency needed to contend with climate change, and jade vine, a …

Why we need to include rural women in climate action
1 year, 1 month ago

Why we need to include rural women in climate action

Live Mint  

Climate change, if unchecked, could push about 158 million more women and girls into poverty by 2050, according to a report, Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2023, launched last week. Yet, in last year’s United Nations global conference on climate change, COP27, there were only seven women leaders among 110 attendees. Ahead of the upcoming COP28 …

‘Women bear the brunt of extreme weather events’
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Women bear the brunt of extreme weather events’

The Hindu  

Women are disproportionately affected by extreme weather events and calamities because of the gender roles assigned to them, said panelists at a conference on “Women and Climate Change” organised by M.O.P. In the case of tsunami or floods, well-documented reports show women were at a higher risk of losing their lives not only because saris were not only harder to …

Investing in women and girls is the surest way to achieve SDGs
1 year, 9 months ago

Investing in women and girls is the surest way to achieve SDGs

Hindustan Times  

Around the world, progress on women’s rights is vanishing before our eyes. The deputy secretary-general, Amina Mohammed, recently visited Afghanistan with a message for the authorities: Women and girls have fundamental human rights, and we will never give up fighting for them. We need action on several fronts to make sure women and girls can make their full contribution to …

An Environment of Gender Equality: Tamil Nadu woman leading the fight against climate change
1 year, 9 months ago

An Environment of Gender Equality: Tamil Nadu woman leading the fight against climate change

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu is one of the largest and most urbanized states in India. Since 2019, Supriya Sahu, 54, has been leading Tamil Nadu’s fight to prevent the devastating effects of extreme weather—and she has been putting women on the front lines of those battles. Her tenure as the District Collector in the Nilgris, an ecologically sensitive district along the border …

Why women's narrative should be prioritised in the sustainability debate
1 year, 9 months ago

Why women's narrative should be prioritised in the sustainability debate

Firstpost  

According to a 2009 UN report, the world’s poor are the most disadvantaged in terms of facing the consequences of the climate crisis. Since that UN report, several other reports and multilateral conventions have recognised how women disproportionately experience a greater burden of the impacts of climate change, which includes disasters, change in patterns of agriculture and migration, loss of …

COP27 Climate Talks: A Victory for Small and Developing Countries - News18
1 year, 11 months ago

COP27 Climate Talks: A Victory for Small and Developing Countries - News18

News 18  

COP27 witnessed over 45,000 people exchanging knowledge, finding solutions, forming alliances and collaborating. The loss and damage theory states that the term ‘loss’ measures the harm that climate change has caused to infrastructure, such as buildings, ports, and roads. India’s approach is founded on four key considerations that serve as the foundation of its long-term low-carbon development strategy: Despite having …

Women lead climate talks’ toughest topic: reparations
2 years, 1 month ago

Women lead climate talks’ toughest topic: reparations

Associated Press  

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Men usually outnumber and outrank women negotiators in climate talks, except when it comes to global warming’s thorniest diplomatic issue this year — reparations for climate disasters. “So I’m not surprised that it is women who are taking the lead on both the political negotiations as well as the thought leadership on loss and damages.” “Women …

Women and girls are key to climate justice
2 years, 2 months ago

Women and girls are key to climate justice

Hindustan Times  

Climate change poses exacerbated risks for India. We rank seventh among 183 countries in the Global Climate Risk Index 2021, and how different communities experience the climate crisis differs based on geography, caste, gender, and ethnicity. The 10to19 Dasra Adolescents Collaborative’s report Seen But Not Heard: Exploring Intersections- Climate Change Adaptation, Gender and Adolescents has found some effective strategies to …

Climate crisis may lead to more violence towards women, girls, gender and sexual minorities, study warns
2 years, 6 months ago

Climate crisis may lead to more violence towards women, girls, gender and sexual minorities, study warns

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Scientists found that factors such as economic shock, social instability, enabling environments, and stress caused by extreme weather and …

Women in rural Bangladesh bear rising cost of climate crisis
2 years, 7 months ago

Women in rural Bangladesh bear rising cost of climate crisis

Al Jazeera  

Study says households headed by women are allocating 30 percent of their spending on protection from climate disasters. Rural families in Bangladesh are using the bulk of their money to protect themselves and their homes from climate change, especially households headed by women who are allocating up to 30 percent of their spending for that purpose, researchers say. For the …

We cannot solve the climate crisis without women and girls
2 years, 9 months ago

We cannot solve the climate crisis without women and girls

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Involving women and girls in solving the climate crisis could mean food security, zero hunger, an end to poverty, …

Gender equality and women's empowerment today for a sustainable tomorrow
2 years, 9 months ago

Gender equality and women's empowerment today for a sustainable tomorrow

China Daily  

LI MIN/CHINA DAILY As the world continues to battle and recover from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and governments look to institute policies to build back better and greener, we are at the same time affected by another global crisis – climate change – and the impact it has on women's health, rights and equality. Climate-related emergencies also cause major disruptions …

Climate change forcing Zimbabwean girls into sex work
2 years, 10 months ago

Climate change forcing Zimbabwean girls into sex work

Al Jazeera  

As global warming continues to devastate rural agriculture, young women are moving to urban centres – and into prostitution. Zimbabwe’s National Climate Change Response Strategy states: “Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity today.” It is estimated it will cause average temperatures in Zimbabwe to rise about 3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Dropping out Onita …

Climate crisis increases violence against women and girls, study finds
3 years, 7 months ago

Climate crisis increases violence against women and girls, study finds

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Natural disasters unleashed …

Climate change disproportionately affects women – but they can also provide the solution
3 years, 9 months ago

Climate change disproportionately affects women – but they can also provide the solution

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The World Health Organisation sets out how events like mass flooding or extreme droughts can lead to an increase …

Why climate change is a feminist issue
3 years, 9 months ago

Why climate change is a feminist issue

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “As climate change increasingly impacts the UK in relation to localised flooding, heatwaves and ability to access food and …

Feminist perspective needed in environmental studies to combat climate crisis
3 years, 9 months ago

Feminist perspective needed in environmental studies to combat climate crisis

Hindustan Times  

Women are disproportionately affected by the ongoing climate crisis since they directly manage natural resources in most communities via activities such as water collection and food production, making it essential to view all areas of environmental research with a gender-lens, say scientists. "As climate change continues to make water sources volatile and scarce, women and marginalised groups stand to lose …

This Women’s Day, I Wish Gender Justice Isn’t Just a Utopian Ideal
3 years, 9 months ago

This Women’s Day, I Wish Gender Justice Isn’t Just a Utopian Ideal

The Quint  

What I want this International Women's Day is a change in how our system responds to cases of violence against women and girls. As a young woman, it never ceases to amaze me that people still use the term “gender equality” as if it were an unattainable, utopian ideal. Perhaps one of the most important conversations of our time, at …

Gender assumptions have harmful impact on climate adaption and resilience
3 years, 9 months ago

Gender assumptions have harmful impact on climate adaption and resilience

Hindustan Times  

The findings of a recent study suggests that outdated assumptions regarding gender continue to hinder effective and fair policymaking, along with the action for climate mitigation and adaptation. Lead author of a new study, Dr Jacqueline Lau from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University and WorldFish, said gender--alongside other identities like race, class, …

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