The Climate Crisis and Gender Inequality: An Intimate Relationship

Jun 10, 2021 | Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre
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We’ve destroyed the planet, insist major public figures like David Attenborough. But who, asks Professor Anne Karpf, is this ‘we’? We aren’t all equally to blame.

In her new book, How Women Can Save the Planet (Hurst, 2021), she argues, instead, that the climate emergency is literally ‘man-made’: that women, especially women of colour, experience the greatest harm from a crisis that they’ve done least to create, and yet responsibility is all too often deflected from the climate guilty—primarily white men in the global North—onto women in the global South.

Meanwhile, although social media and the streets are bursting with female climate campaigners, at the top table where climate policy is thrashed out, women are shockingly missing.

Gathering overwhelming evidence, Karpf shows how the climate crisis is driven by gender inequality and that gender equality offers a solution. She’s interviewed climate activists, aged 16 to 70, around the world, two of whom join her for this launch event.

Who: Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre

Where: Online

When: 10 June 2021    Time: 01:00 PM