Women and Climate Change

Women are overexposed to the impacts of climate change for two reasons First, women are disproportionately represented among the poor, are more susceptible to climate hazards than men. Women lack the same economic rights as men. The gap between men's and women’s expected lifetime earnings is very wide. Women livelihoods are more climate dependent. Women bear the major responsibility for ensuring household water and energy supply for cooking and heating, and they produce between 60-80% of food in Uganda. As a result, of those displaced by climate change, around 80% are women. When climate disasters hit, women that survive lose their homes, crops, education and livelihoods – and have less means to look for alternatives through circular mobility and migration. We support women to be part of the climate solution. We support women to implement solutions for curbing global warming to 2C. When women are invited to participate in climate action, they are particularly effective agents of change. For example, female farmers are more likely than men to embrace regenerative agriculture practices like increasing plant diversity and integrating pest and weed management to improve crop quality and output, because on average they have a greater interest in protecting the environment.