Blogs & Opinions

Opinion: Addressing the Toll of Climate Change on Women’s Health

Jul 17, 2023 | Natasha Sunderji, Ragini Ahluwalia, and Latika Khurana

In 2022, altered weather and rain patterns pushed Kenya into its worst drought in 40 years. Crop and livestock losses greatly restricted income and food access…

Gender-Smart Climate Finance is Critical for Progress, Results, and Impact

Jul 7, 2023 | Franziska Deininger and Sudharshan Canagarajah

We know all too well that the multiple crises facing the world – food insecurity, energy access, global health, conflict and climate change – have…

Growing Climate Crisis Fuels Gender-Based Violence According to UN Report

Jul 6, 2023 | Anupama Patel

The growing climate crisis does intersect with raging gender-based violence around the world, according to a recent statistical report by the United Nations Organisation. Globally, 26 per…

National Climate Adaptation Plans Must Include Women’s Voices

Jul 6, 2023 | Lauren Wolfe

As the world struggles to catch up with climate change — whether confronting extreme wildfire smoke in the U.S. Northeast, or some of the hottest…

The Impacts of Climate Change on South Asian Women

Jul 3, 2023 | Neha Madhira

Of the 750 million South Asians affected by at least one climate-related disaster in the last two decades, women have been disproportionately impacted. According to a recent report by…

The Climate-Gender Nexus

Jul 2, 2023 | Shruti Deora

Climate change is a global challenge that requires urgent action and innovative solutions. It is not just an environmental issue but also a social and economic…

‘Women Bear the Biggest Brunt of Climate Change,’ says Climate Scientist Susan Chomba

Jun 21, 2023 | Neha Wadekar

Roughly 12 percent of the world’s top climate scientists are women and fewer than one percent are from Africa – a continent hard hit by climate…

Opinion: Make Climate Finance Inclusive for Just Transition to Net Zero

Jun 20, 2023 | Jyotsna Puri and Pablo Vieira

Climate Response for Drylands Must Include Women

Jun 17, 2023 | Tiina Vähänen and Fidaa F. Haddad

In the world’s drylands, which are home to nearly 40% of the global population, women are feeling the effects of climate change. Droughts and land…

We Must Center Gender and Community Rights for Climate Action (Commentary)

Jun 8, 2023 | Coraina de la Plaza and Valentina F. Martínez

As we head into the mid-year climate talks in Bonn, Germany, the corporate co-opting of the climate agenda has never been starker. Public pressure must…

Hunger’s Rising but so Is a Key Solution: Gender Equality

Jun 8, 2023 | The Christian Science Monitor

The United Nations reported last month that, among countries without violent conflict, Afghanistan has the highest number of people (2.8 million) facing a “catastrophic” level…

Expert’s Take: Six Ways Sri Lanka’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security Will Support Women During Crises

Jun 8, 2023 | Prashani Dias

Conflicts and crises affect everyone, but do they affect everyone the same? Sri Lanka’s past shows how the legacy of armed conflict imposes particular hardships…

Integrating Gender and Social Inclusion in Nature-Based Solutions: A Way Forward

Jun 5, 2023 | Brenden Jongman, Mirtha Escobar, Lara Jungman and Balikisu Osman

Vietnam, with its vast coastline extending over 3,000 kilometres, is not only home to prosperous fisheries and socio-economic activities but also bears the brunt of…

The Horn of Africa Crisis: “The Challenge of a Generation”

Jun 1, 2023 | CARE

Across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, the Horn of Africa is experiencing the extreme effects of climate change. Compounded by other factors, the impacts on communities…

Intersectional Gender Equity Must Inform Efforts to Enhance Climate Security in Africa

May 16, 2023 | Marisa O. Ensor

The adverse consequences of climate change are being felt around the world, but nowhere more keenly than in Africa. While African nations are among the least responsible for…

Somalia's Women and Girls are Victims of Climate Change

May 11, 2023 | Amal Hassan

Hospitals are filled to capacity with shrieking children and worried mothers. Doctors are rushing, trying to save the lives of many, already knowing that they won’t be…

Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan Worsens, With Disproportionate Impacts to Women and Girls

May 11, 2023

With over 600 people dead, 5,100 injured, approximately 730,000 displaced, and few health centers operational, the dire situation in Sudan is getting worse, with growing…

Green Spending and Gender

May 10, 2023 | Nigel Barber

Consumer spending fuels the global economy and is the biggest single cause of climate change. Much of that spending is discretionary, so changing consumption habits…

The Problem That Has No Name: Gender, Climate Migration, and the Case of Israel

May 3, 2023 | Hadas Cohen

Female climate refugees are doubly vulnerable, both to climate catastrophes back home and once on the road as refugees. Israel, which is expected to be…

Shifting the Power: Making a Difference Through Gender and Climate Activism

Apr 27, 2023 | Meg Keen

In this episode of Pacific Change Makers, Dr Meg Keen speaks with Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls in Suva, Fiji about social activism in the Pacific. Sharon is the Regional…

Water for Women, Women for Water

Apr 22, 2023 | Tinebeb Yohannes, The Reporter

Public opinion says Ethiopia has an abundance of water—the “water tower for Africa”. For many women in this country, this is becoming increasingly hard to…

Absorbing Climate Shocks and Easing Conflict in Kenya’s Rift Valley

Apr 20, 2023 | International Crisis Group

What’s new? A protracted drought in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating land use conflict in the north of Kenya’s Rift Valley region. Longstanding tensions between…

Empowering Women, Protecting the Earth

Apr 19, 2023 | UN Women

The climate crisis is not gender neutral.  

As its impacts worsen, women and girls are experiencing unique and disproportionate harm—with the fallout amplifying existing gender inequalities. Typically…

Q&A: Bridging Gender and Just Energy Transitions

Apr 18, 2023 | Johanna Lehtmets and Laura Del Duca

In recent years, several crises have emerged simultaneously, including the Covid-19 pandemic, extreme weather events and natural disasters, disruptions in supply chains, energy crises and…

Opinion: Gender-Blind Policies Ignore the Disproportionate Effects of Water Crisis on Women

Apr 13, 2023 | Bolormaa Purevjav, Adiya B. Tudiyarova, and Elena G. Fuertes

The demand for water resources is higher than ever before. The growing global population, expanding industrial development and the impacts of climate change are exacerbating the…

Climate Change Compounding Inequalities Faced by Women in Agriculture, FAO says

Apr 12, 2023 | Yanine Quiroz

Women working in agriculture “tend to do so under highly unfavourable conditions” – often in the face of “climate-induced weather shocks and in situations of…

Nexus of Climate Change & Gender-Based Violence

Apr 9, 2023 | Ahsan H. Durrani

In recent years, the intertwined crises of climate change and gender-based violence (GBV) have gained global attention. The case of Pakistan, a deeply patriarchal society…

Africa: Who Needs A Seat at the Climate Crisis Table? #AfricaClimateHope

Mar 30, 2023 | Melody Chironda

Africa is increasingly feeling the effects of climate change, with the most vulnerable populations being hit the hardest, resulting in food insecurity, displacement of populations,…

How Pangani Villagers Push for Gender and Climate Justice

Mar 26, 2023 | Ramadhani Ismail

Globally, women and children remain the biggest sufferers when it comes to climate change. The numbers double and triple in second and third world countries,…

5 Facts About Gender Equality and Climate Change

Mar 16, 2023 | GABRIELA CARBÓ ZACK

Girls and women do not experience climate change in the same ways as boys and men. The reason? Historical and structural gender inequalities — which…