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Women play a critical role in sustaining communities and managing natural resources, but their contributions are often undervalued and neglected. Women are also more likely than men to live in poverty, and they are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and other environmental hazards, especially in developing countries. Because women tend to be more vulnerable to the impacts of natural resource degradation than men, environmental protection and green policies can help improve gender equality, with many economic and social co-benefits.
Numerous studies indicate that improving gender equality and women’s participation in the workforce can have a positive impact on economic growth. It can also enhance productivity, improve development outcomes for future generations, and increase the quality of societal policies and institutions, including more representative decision-making.
Achieving gender equality is so important that it is one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, which aims to redress the disproportionate impact on women and girls of economic, social and environmental shocks and views women as central actors, recognizing that their knowledge and collective action can improve resource productivity and encourage the sustainable use of natural resources.
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Improving educational, health, and economic opportunities for women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa is imperative to unlock the region's potential for sustainable growth. To improve future productivity, vulnerable groups' access to education and basic health must be prioritized.
Created a Post in Climate Change, Gender
A green economy transition in sub-Saharan Africa would enable women to benefit from primary-level jobs, but not higher-paying positions in the renewable energy, infrastructure, or transportation sectors. What needs to be changed to remove the constraints women face in accessing education, formal-sector work, and financing solutions?
Gender, Innovation & Research
Last week the European Commission published its ‘She Figures 2021’ report, which monitors progress towards gender equality in research and innovation, both key factors in the green transition.
It shows that the gender gap in education is shrinking, but that women are still under-represented in research and innovation career, particularly when it comes to decision-making positions.
For example, in the EU in 2018, women represented more than 40% of academic staff on average. However, going up in the academic ladder, women make up only one-fourth (26.2%) of grade A positions (equivalent for full professorship position).
The pandemic has exacerbated the risks for women and girls across the region. Yet women have taken up essential roles in the response as front-line health care workers as well as in their homes. Many of the hard-fought gains have been reversed, and existing inequalities deepened. Even before the pandemic, women and girls in Asia and the Pacific spent up to 11 hours a day on unpaid care and domestic work – four times more than men.
How can we better address these vulnerabilities? Read the report to learn more about the unpaid care economy and how it has impacted women and girls during the pandemic:
Created a Post in Green Recovery from COVID-19, Climate Change, Gender
There can be no just transition without gender justice.
Indeed, the pandemic has drawn attention to a trio of interlocking crises that systematically undermine gender equality: jobs, care and climate.
In response, UN Women’s new “Feminist plan” provides a visionary but practical roadmap for putting gender equality, social justice, and sustainability at the centre of the recovery and transformation.
Visit the webpage to find our more.
New SSE Gender Equality Database
The United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) new Gender Equality Database tracks and ranks stock exchanges of the G20 by the gender balance of issuer's boards. The monitoring tool represents a step forward in examining the contribution exchanges can make toward SDG target 5.5: ensure women's full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic, and public life.
Financing, Gender in NDCs Highlighted at COP 26 Side Events
While gender is increasingly being acknowledged by and incorporated into NDCs, challenges remain for developing best practices for integrating gender into future NDCs.
The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) organized several discussions on the sidelines of COP26 to share ways to integrate gender into countries' NDCs under the Paris Agreement.
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Prime minister Narendra Modi has big plans to expand palm oil production in the region, saying it can be a “gamechanger” for the economy and boost the nation’s self-reliance. But in areas that have pioneered palm oil production, it has brought little wealth at a heavy cost for the environment and workers.
Experts warn that the policy is likely to drive deforestation, putting India’s wildlife and climate goals at risk, while disempowering women.
“In monoculture farming women are the ones who are at loss, primarily because it takes place in big chunks of lands which are mostly entitled to the male’s name. The cash which comes from monoculture farming comes in bulk and goes to the men in the family, so there is less petty cash left for the woman in the house.”
Created an Event in Sustainable Finance, Gender
Leaders and campaigners warned that the climate crisis could not be ended without the empowerment of women. Women and girls around the world suffer disproportionately from the impacts of climate breakdown, as they are on average poorer, less educated and more dependent on subsistence farming. A UN report found 80% of those displaced by the climate emergency are women.