Grassroots women and girls resilience to the impacts of climate change: Climate change exacerbates gender inequalities, and gender inequality undermines the ability to adapt to and mitigate climate change risks as well as build resilience.
Climate change increases women’s and girls’ vulnerability to gender-based violence, unpaid care work, forced migration, armed conflict, and other harmful practices. We believe that grassroots women and girls are not just victims of climate change impacts but also change agents who have invented innovations and strategies for coping with and mitigating climate change risks; hence, they must be engaged in climate policy, climate finance, and climate action. Gender and climate justice are intimately intertwined.
