Scaling-Out Gender Transformation for Climate Change

Mar 9, 2020 | Sophie Huyer and Heidi Braun
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Climate change has enormous implications for women in the developing world through increased workloads, food insecurity, threats to health, and more responsibilities due to male out-migration.

Effective and sustainable interventions to address climate change must include gender transformation, or the transformation of gendered roles, opportunities, relationships and agency, in the context of wider societal and environmental change. We need to recognize that women are not vulnerable victims of climate change, but have the capacity and knowledge to become active agents of adaptation and mitigation.