Global Gender and Environmental Outlook
Publisher: UN Environment
Date: 2016
Topics: Climate Change, Gender, Renewable Resources
Gender inequality is one of the most pervasive threats to sustainable development. It has negative impacts on access to, use of and control over a wide range of resources, and on the ability to meet human rights obligations with respect to enjoyment – by women and men – of a clean, safe, healthy and sustainable environment.
The Global Gender and Environmental Outlook (GGEO) provides an overview of current knowledge and gives a first set of answers to the following key policy-relevant questions:
- What social forces are producing the changes seen in the environment, and are they gender-dependent?
- What are the large-scale consequences of ongoing environmental changes for social systems and human security, and are these consequences gender-differentiated?
- What do future projections and outlooks look like, are they gender-differentiated, and will there be different outcomes for women and men?
- What actions could be taken for a more sustainable future that would position women and men as equal agents in taking such actions, and which socio-economic factors could shape different outcomes and responses for women and men?