Gender sensitive approach in response to climate change: Why and how?

Global gender inequalities are intensifying, driven by intersecting social, political, and environmental pressures. Recent evidence shows that women bear a disproportionate burden of poverty, food insecurity, poor health, and gender-based violence. Climate change further compounds these vulnerabilities, threatening to reverse hard-won gains in gender equality, particularly in fragile and low-resource settings. Without urgent, gender-responsive and climate-informed action, millions more women and girls risk being pushed into extreme poverty in the coming decades.