Women: the real face of climate change

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Women are the true face of climate change. As its effects become more dramatic and evident in everyday life around the world – Alyson Kenward writes on ClimateCentral – it’s more likely that the burden of these deleterious consequences will be coped by women.
While the world celebrates women on the International Women’s Day, she points out what we could probably call the “climate gender difference”.
Just to make an example to understand the extent of women’s susceptibility to climate change, we know that developing countries are exposed to the more dramatic impacts of climate change such as rising sea level or the increasing occurence of extreme events. Storms, floods, droughts and famines are more likely to affect developing countries, and women represent an astonishing 70 per cent of people living in poverty around the world.

“If it isn’t enough – Alyson Kenward writes – women are usually responsible for children and relatives and in extreme conditions, they have the added burden of moving everyone out of harm’s way.  It’s their universal role as caregiver — one that we would rarely change if given the chance — that increases women’s vulnerability to our changing climate. With motherhood comes the responsibility of providing food, water, shelter, protection and transportation for children. In a warmer world, these are increasingly challenging tasks”.

Read the fulle article by Alyson Kenward “Women Are The True Face of Climate Change” on Climate Central.

 

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