Why Gender-Transformative Climate Literacy is Critical for Bhutan

Sep 13, 2023 | Thinley Choden
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Globally, around 1 billion children (nearly half of the world’s children) live in countries with extremely high risk of climate change disasters, with girls being more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

Although Bhutan ranks 111 out of 163 countries in terms of climate risk, Bhutanese girls and women experience the impacts of the climate crisis more acutely due to entrenched gender roles and responsibilities that affect access to and control over assets, skills training, and relevant information. That being said, Bhutan generally fares better than many other countries in the Global South in terms of education, gender, and climate change efforts.