UN Gender Action Plan to address Climate Change impacts on Women and Girls

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The Gender Action Plan (GAP) of the United Nation Climate Change recognizes the differentiated impacts of climate change on women and men, according to UN Climate Change News.

Climate Change experts from all around the world who gathered at UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany early May, 2018 agreed to step up action on gender and climate change through the GAP.

GAP supports the gender-related actions under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change with respect to the Paris Agreement.

It  also urges immediate advancement of women’s participation, promotes gender-responsive climate policy and mainstreaming of the gender perspectives in the Paris Agreement’s implementation.

"We know that the role of women as agents of change and their participation in the political process contributes to the transformation of our society towards a low-carbon and resilient development", said Jeniffer Hanna Collado of the Dominican Republic’s National Council for Climate Change and the Clean Development Mechanism during the Bonn meetings.

The Bonn conference which was attended also by researchers from the civil societies and public sector highlighted solutions on how to intensify the implementation of the GAP, including how to address the impacts of climate change on women and girls in climate action.

They further explored some of the currently available resources to create gender-responsive climate policies and good practices for addressing gender and climate change,  including the importance of having gender-analysis and sex-dis aggregated data.

According to Climate Change experts, women and girls remains among the most vulnerable  groups of populations when it comes to climate since in many regions of the world, women and girls rely on natural resources for their work and livelihood.

Their access to resources and rights to land ownership are also often limited.

The Bonn Climate Change Conference was held  from 30 April to 10 May 2018 a head of  Conference of Parties COP 24 in Katowice, USA later this year.

Civil society groups also had an action during the conference to demand for expulsion of polluters from sessions while urging for more urgent climate action from governments to respect 1.5 C global warming target mentioned in Paris Agreement.





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