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| Title |
Gender: The Missing Component of the Response
to Climate Change |
| Author |
Lambrou, Y. and Piana, G. |
| Publication
Date |
April 2006 |
| Publisher |
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United
States (FAO) |
| Donor |
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United
States (FAO) |
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Short Summary |
The gender aspects of climate change have generally
been neglected in international climate policy. This report, produced
by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO),
argues that gender, like poverty, is a cross cutting issue in climate
change and needs to be recognised as such. Particularly in developing
countries, women generally have lower incomes than men, they often
have limited control of resources, and they have less access to information
and decision making authority. Their ability to mitigate and adapt
to the impacts of climate change is thus lower than that of men. Focusing
solely on women's vulnerability may be misleading however, since women
often have particular skills, coping strategies and knowledge that
can be used to minimise the impacts of environmental change. Any environmental
policy should therefore recognise women as key players, particularly
given their role as natural resource managers. At the Eleventh Conference
of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP
11), held in Montreal in December 2005, representatives of women's
groups presented a short petition with some gender-specific recommendations
to women environment ministers. This report concludes that it is crucial
for women to continue to lobby national negotiators in the next stage
of climate change negotiations, to press for the full integration
of gender issues into the climate change agenda. |
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