Women, Gender Equality and Climate Change
May 30, 2010
Detrimental effects of climate change can be
felt in the short-term through natural hazards,
such as landslides, floods and hurricanes; and
in the long-term, through more gradual degradation of the environment. The adverse ef-
fects of these events are already felt in many
areas, including in relation to, inter alia, agriculture and food security; biodiversity and
ecosystems; water resources; human health;
human settlements and migration patterns;
and energy, transport and industry.
In many of these contexts, women are more
vulnerable to the effects of climate change
than men-primarily as they constitute the
majority of the world's poor and are more
dependent for their livelihood on natural resources that are threatened by climate change.