Gender Equality to Solve the Climate Emergency
Jan 25, 2024
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UNESCO
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
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Climate emergencies are not gender neutral. In fact, the degradation of the planet’s natural systems has a disproportionate effect on women and girls.
UNESCO’s International Day of Women in Multilateralism 2024 will recognize women leaders in the multilateral system to catalyze a global dialogue on multilateral solutions to gender discrimination that inhibits responses to climate emergencies. The event will promote women’s roles in scientific discoveries, conservation of ecosystems and efforts to reduce threats to biodiversity. It will also work to increase and strengthen women’s leadership in the governance and management of natural resources and water.The results will be compiled as a set of recommendations to meaningfully contribute the gender perspective to the outcomes of the World Science Forum (November 2024), the UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona (April 2024) and the UN Ocean Conference (June 2025).