CLIMATE JUSTICE CALLS FOR GENDER
JUSTICE
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MADRE Report:
- Embedded within the threat of
climate change is the opportunity to reimagine our economies and societies
in keeping with the balance of nature and in support of human rights.
Realizing that opportunity requires a gender analysis.
- The voices of women,
particularly rural women, are seen as peripheral and routinely excluded
from policymaking—despite the visionary solutions they offer. The result
is climate programs and policies that further marginalize women, undermine
human rights generally and reinforce assumptions that created the climate
crisis in the first place.
- Climate justice activists need
support from funders and government allies to contest the shrinking space
available for civil society within the UN system, the key site of global
policymaking. Reclaiming this space would allow for the gridlock of global
climate policies to be re-envisioned—not as a cause for retreat, but as a
strategic opening to press for better, rights-based policies.