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Island Women and the Climate Crisis: A Focus on Intersectionalities
Climate change affects different groups unequally, and women and girls are among the most vulnerable and exposed to immediate risks. In island nations—considered to be on the front lines because the impacts are already severe—they have been forced to develop their own adaptation strategies in the face of a daily life marked by climate-related disasters.
Women, Peace and Security... And Climate Change
When discussing the relation between the “Women, Peace and Security” (WPS) agenda and climate change, we must keep two premises in mind: first, climate change and security are gendered issues, and second, climate change is a security risk multiplier that should be considered a security issue as well. This article explores the inclusion of threats caused by a changing global climate within the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) WPS framework and what that could mean for the future of climate and gender security.
Gender-just Climate Policy: Women and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
As part of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the Parties agreed to a long-term goal for adaptation and resilience, with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC’s) at the heart of these efforts.
Women in Agriculture: The chapter missing from our history books
In the patriarchal society we have lived in for centuries, women were always working in the kitchen, right? Wrong! Female work started on the farm and ended in the kitchen.