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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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New analysis details how trade policy affects women's participation in the economy. Learn more about the possible policy solutions we can adopt to develop inclusive growth through diversified trade.
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UNDP, in partnership with UN Women, OECD and other members of a consortium of global organisations, are collaborating on a new tool: the COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker, with a green lens.
Set to launch at the 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women in March 2022, the new tool builds on the success of two existing policy databases to help identify the level of alignment between countries’ COVID-19 recovery measures and their SDG commitments.
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How does climate change affect the role of women in the global coffee sector?
Around 70% of labour in coffee production is provided by women. Addressing sustainable production as well as rural livelihoods requires a discussion around the barriers that women face in coffee production. Read more about how we can develop an inclusive and green model for coffee agribusiness:
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While climate negotiations continue in Glasgow, it is essential to remember that any meaningful international effort to shift to a sustainable society must include a gender perspective. However, women and girls have mostly been neglected by national climate strategies so far.
Hence the question, Will COP26 Become a Turning Point for Gender Responsive Climate Action?
The role of women in managing climate change
Chair of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd, speaks at The Energy Law Institute’s Annual Clifford Chance Lecture
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Mainstreaming gender and climate change is more likely to become institutionalised when activities are organised in a cross-sectoral manner and build on each other over time. In the past few years, the Government of Ethiopia has taken important steps in setting up and strengthening the institutions and governance arrangements for climate change and gender, including through the establishment of Climate-Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) units and gender directorates in different sectoral ministries.
Women entrepreneurs have sacrificed more time than men undertaking unpaid care during COVID-19 and their businesses have received less public support than those run by men – raising concerns that COVID-19 could undo years of progress for women entrepreneurs. Learn more about the new data highlighting the setbacks suffered by women in the workforce.
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