How Does Fighting Climate Change Help Protect Sexual and Reproductive Health?

Dec 7, 2021 | Leah Rodriguez
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Climate change doesn’t just damage the world’s natural resources and wildlife — it also has lasting impacts on the health of human beings, disproportionately affecting women and girls. 

Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow earlier this month, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, released an analysis of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) — which are targets set by countries to drive implementation of the Paris agreement for the next five years — in 50 African countries. 

Global Citizen spoke to Angela Baschieri, the regional adviser on population dynamics in UNFPA’s Eastern and Southern Africa office, about the need for countries to include increasing women’s health services in climate adaptation plans and strategies.