Climate Justice For All Women and Girls
UN Women of Europe and Central Asia have released a brief containing an outline of the root issues related to climate justice for women and girls alongside a list of strategies to support women’s environmental action and rights. The brief references UN Women data that projects that by 2050, up to 158.3 million more women and girls may be living in poverty as a result of climate change related disasters and crises. Focusing on Europe and Central Asia, the publication also introduces examples of the climate-gender nexus in Tajikistan, where women’s responsibility of water collection is being affected by water scarcity and contamination, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where gender gaps in the green workforce are evident. In response to the ongoing climate crisis and its harms against women and girls, UN Women has proposed a variety of hopeful solutions and approaches that emphasize a human-rights based approach and that value women’s leadership, voice, agency, and participation. Some of their proposed solutions include increasing funding for women’s environmental action with particular attention to grassroots organizations, contributing to data collection for research on climate change and gender inequality by becoming more inclusive of non-traditional data sources, and promoting the development of policies to expand women’s access to green jobs. Climate Justice For All Women and Girls