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Gender-responsive education key to climate action and justice
According to the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI), gender-transformative education can empower girls to tackle the climate crisis.
What you need to know:
- Drought and floods have a greater impact on the most vulnerable, 70 per cent of whom are women.
- This year alone, climate change will prevent at least four million girls from completing their education.
At the COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland, global leaders committed to increase the uptake of clean technologies. However, addressing climate change will remain a tall order until the world is ready to deal with gender, environmental and developmental inequalities.
In poor settings, women are often responsible for gathering and producing food, collecting water and sourcing fuel for heating and cooking. Drought and floods have a greater impact on the most vulnerable, 70 per cent of whom are women. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this year alone, climate change will prevent at least four million girls from completing their education.
