Blogs & Opinion
Why Gender Equality is Needed for Successful Climate Policies
4 July 2019 | Anna Sophia Carrigou
On a trip to the Niger Delta when she was young, Alexandra Wandel witnessed how Shell’s leaked oil pipelines and gas flaring were polluting the water, soil and air. “It was out of shock against...
Climate Change is a Women's Human Rights Issue
4 July 2019 | Keina Yoshida and Lina Cespedes
On the February 7th 2018, the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) enacted its first general recommendation which focuses on climate change and the gendere...
Women May Be More Vulnerable to Climate Change but Data Absent
1 July 2019 | Namratha Rao and Anita Raj
Women are more likely to observe the impact of climate change on their lives, and are more vulnerable to such impacts, anecdotal evidence has shown. Yet, there are no reliable data to measure women’...
Women Are the Key to Unlocking Peace
30 June 2019 | Isha Tembe
The adoption of UN Security Resolution 1325 was supposed to be a turning point for women as it affirmed that women hold a unique experience during and after times of conflict. The resolution called fo...
Women Defenders of the Land and the Environment: Silenced Voices
27 June 2019 | Oxfam
The expansion of large scale mining activities and agribusiness in Latin America has greatly increased territorial disputes and resulted in an alarming rise in violence suffered by individuals who def...
Gender, Indigenous Peoples and Poverty in Latin American NDCs
27 June 2019 | Paz Gonzalez and Yanina Nemirovsky
Indigenous perspectives are important to the design and implementation of climate policies and here’s why. Indigenous people contribute to the conservation of 80% of the world’s biodiversity – a...
Kenyan Tribe Divided Over Women's Land Rights After Landmark Ruling
25 June 2019 | Dominic Kirui
A few months ago, the idea of coming home with a hoe in one hand and a sack of freshly harvested potatoes in the other was only a dream for Rachel Korir. When her father died in 2012, his land in the...
Women's Land Rights: a Journey to Understand Nuances and Explore Challenges
20 June 2019 | Aditya Chaturvedi
Journeys that compel us to introspect and leave us stunned are not beatific odysseys or intrepid sagas peppered with swashbuckling antics, but there is unvarnished truth-telling that emerges from them...
Three Surprising Solutions to Climate Change
10 June 2019 | Jeff McMahon
When the analysts at Project Drawdown quantified the impact of 100 solutions to climate change, they were surprised by some of their results, the organization's executive director said in a recent ap...
Women as Climate Action Ambassadors in Coastal Districts of India's Odisha State
7 June 2019 | UN Environment
People in the coastal districts of the eastern Indian state of Odisha are increasingly suffering from the effects of climate change. Most households in the area are dependent on natural resources for...