Changement climatique

Climate Change

This toolkit contains resources to support you in applying a gender- responsive approach to climate change action in your work:

Assessing legislation
Representing constituents
Strengthening resilience among your constituents

Urgent action on climate change – which is attributed directly to human activity – is critical if sustainable development gains are to be maintained

Climate action policies that do not address the specific and diverse needs of a population can deepen gender inequalities and vulnerabilities such as poverty and insecurity, and impede sustainable development.

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Climate Change

This toolkit contains resources to support you in applying a gender- responsive approach to climate change action in your work:

Assessing legislation
Representing constituents
Strengthening resilience among your constituents

Urgent action on climate change – which is attributed directly to human activity – is critical if sustainable development gains are to be maintained

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Statistics

OF GLOBAL GAS EMISSIONS ARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE CARIBBEAN REGION

EASTERN CARIBBEAN STATES RANK AMONG THE TEN MOST DISASTER PRONE COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD

OF THE CARIBBEAN POPULATION LIVES WITHIN 1.5 KM OF THE OCEAN

Sources

(2010) Source
These are: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Based on data since 1970, a disaster causing damage of more than 2 percent of GDP can be expected to affect an Eastern Caribbean island once every two and a half years. ( University of the West Indies (UWI) Institute of Gender Studies, 2015)
(2015) Source

Good Practices

The following practices have been submitted by parliamentarians and related stakeholders, and describe techniques that can be applied to:

Policy making on climate change that is gender responsive.

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Did You Know?

As part of the Paris Agreement adopted at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21), signatory states committed to “respect, promote and consider gender equality and empowerment of women… when taking action to combat climate change” – with an emphasis on increasing awareness and support for the development and implementation of gender-responsive climate adaptation policies at regional and national levels. Progress towards this goal will be reviewed in 2016 at COP 22 in Marrakech, and can also be monitored on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) website.

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Check Yourself

Flash Quiz Time! Revisit key aspects of this toolkit with a short, self-guided quiz. These multiple-choice questions are intended for personal knowledge review and responses are anonymous. Go ahead and challenge yourself.

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