The issue of how gender influences the effectiveness of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in tackling climate change is under-researched. This paper offers a systematic review of how gender shapes, and is shaped by, the interaction of ICTs and climate change. It explains why, and how, women tend to be more constrained than men from using ICTs in tackling climate change. Women are systematically disadvantaged in terms of control over and access to assets, institutions and structures, which effects how they adapt to climate change and respond to climate-related disasters.
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2020 was intended to be a pivotal year for the global gender equality agenda and global climate change ambition. It was supposed to be a year to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action and to celebrate the start of the Paris Agreement. Yet, the unexpected and rapid spread of the highly infectious novel coronavirus has set in our paths a mammoth challenge. The ensuing economic slowdown and the postponement of the UN Climate Conference to 2021 threaten to stall the world’s commitments to climate action.
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HOW WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP AND EXPERTISE CAN SHAPE SUSTAINABLE AND INCLUSIVE CITIES
This report makes the explicit connection between gender and climate action. It argues that one of the best inroads for cities to integrate a gender perspective into their climate action plans – and ultimately to achieve more inclusive climate action – is through a focus on inclusive and sustainable urban mobility.
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The countries most vulnerable to climate change are those that did the least to cause it. Developing countries are being increasingly hammered by the direct impacts of a growing number of climate change charged weather extremes–super-sized storms, worsening floods, and more devastating droughts–as well as the insidious, slow onset of rising sea levels. These climate events often overwhelm economies, costing poor countries, by some estimates, US$500 billion annually and forcing 26 million people into poverty each year
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The Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development initiative represents a partnership of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with the Government of Sweden (Sida), the Government of Germany (BMZ), Duke Energy Corporation, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC); collectively known as the ‘Founding Partners’.
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From Evidence to Inclusive Policies
Synthesis report of the evidence generated by the ENERGIA Gender and Energy Research Programme
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The Landscape and Way Forward on Gender and Climate Change
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A focus on benue, cross river, plateau, and river states
The main objective of this study is to assess gender and climate change issues in agriculture in Nigeria with a focus on Benue, Cross River, Plateau and Rivers States. Specifically, the study has the following objectives: 1.To examine the nexus between gender, climate change and agriculture
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This brief recognises that the equal involvement of women and men in all levels of adaptation planning efforts is needed to ensure that policy, programmes and projects address socially and culturally specific climate change impacts. The brief calls for raising awareness of the Adaptation Fund, particularly among national women’s machineries. The Fund’s governance and financing instruments provide entry points for developing countries to play the leading roles.