New Climate Frontier: Gender-Based Lawsuits

May 13, 2022 | Lesley Clark
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Lawsuits brought by women against governments in Pakistan and Switzerland over failures to curb greenhouse gas emissions could be harbingers of a new avenue for climate litigation.

Since the cases were filed in 2018 and 2019, studies are increasingly finding that women are disproportionately affected by the ravages of climate change, and efforts to address gender inequity in policy are growing (Climatewire, May 10).

The United Nations in March issued its first report on the links between rising emissions and gender equality and pledged to put women and girls at the center of climate and environmental policy.