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GENDER EQUALITY, ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: POWERFUL SYNERGIES
27 September 2012 - Since the Earth Summit twenty years
ago, the international community has made historic achievements in advancing
human development, including gender equality. But the world continues to face
considerable social, economic and environmental challenges, and progress
continues to be threatened by persisting gender inequalities.
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This publication, Powerful Synergies: Gender Equality,
Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability, is a collection of
evidence-based papers by scholars and practitioners that explore the
interconnections between gender equality and sustainable development across a
range of sectors and global development issues such as energy, health,
education, food security, climate change, human rights, consumption and
production patterns, and urbanization. The publication provides evidence from
various sectors and regions on how women’s equal access and control over
resources not only improves the lives of individuals, families and nations, but
also helps ensure the sustainability of the environment.
The papers in this publication make detailed recommendations for policy makers
and practitioners to ensure that policies and programmes effectively integrate
gender equality and that women participate fully and meaningfully. By acting on
these recommendations and working collectively across sectors, we will not only
drive forward towards the future we want, but we will provide the foundations
for present and future generations of women and men, and boys and girls, to
thrive.