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Gender is key to understanding how individuals’ and groups’ vulnerabilities and capacities to adapt and respond to climate change are shaped. Reducing gender to a comparison between women and men, however, risks painting an unclear picture. Effective and responsive adaptation planningneeds to take into account the ways in which gender intersects with other factors, such […]

Gender mainstreaming in REDD+ and PES requires not only a policy on gender equity, but also political will and sufficient capacity in government agencies at various levels of governance. Full-merged PDF also available in Gender and Climate Change : evidence and experience

Achieving sustainable development and food and nutrition security in a changing climate requires addressing the fundamental issue of gender inequality whilst building the adaptive capacity of both men and women. Here we review lessons from practical approaches to integrating gender into community-based adaptation and food and nutrition security in Ghana and Bangladesh. Full-merged PDF also […]

Women farmers around the world are taking the lead in putting crop and varietal conservation and diversification strategies into practice as a way to strengthen local climate change adaptation capacities. Full-merged PDF also available in Gender and Climate Change : evidence and experience

Paris must deliver an ambitious and equitable agreement that keeps warming below the 1.5°C threshold, supports just climate action, respects the human rights of all people, and ensures gender equality at its core, as a guiding mandate. However, it is also critically important to look ahead to implementation and continued efforts toward gender responsive climate […]

In Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province, the peat areas are burning and emitting a toxic smoke causing untold damage to the environment, wildlife and human health. Most of the fires in Central Kalimantan are blazing in former peatland forests, which have been drained, cleared and burned for oil palm and agriculture, large and small. The dried-out […]