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Climate change is not gender-neutral. People’s vulnerabilities vary according to gender, but also by ethnicity, religion, class, and age conditions. This is evidenced by gender-differentiated impacts of climate change, as well as restrictions on access, control and management of financial and technological resources and spaces for political participation to effectively tackle the climate crisis. These constraints, based on cultural norms, stereotypes and discriminatory practices, are mainly imposed to women in all their diversity. Despite the significant roles that womxn and men play as agents of change, womxn’s vulnerability continues to predominate discourses on development and climate change. Tackling the current climate crisis requires an intersectional and feminist approach to transform such barriers and find an inclusive and just way to fight climate change.
Evidence is emerging to suggest that solutions and responses to the climate crisis already exist on the ground, and these are gender-responsive and community-based. This lecture will focus on showcasing examples on how womxn in all their diversity have proven to develop climate adaptation and mitigation strategies that respond to the specific needs of their communities and seek for climate justice. They have developed a range of coping strategies in response to risks and environmental impacts and have promoted the use of traditional knowledge for resilient agriculture, water source protection, energy production and economic diversification. Gender-just climate solutions are bottom-up initiatives that are decentralized, safe, context-base, affordable, sustainable, replicable, promote equal access to benefits, do not burden womxn, entail multiple benefits, and centre local decision-making.
Gina Cortés Valderrama is a Colombian feminist who advocates for just and gender-responsive climate action from a decolonial and intersectional approach. She works at the international organisation Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF), contributing closely to the work of the UNFCCC Women and Gender Constituency. She is part of the Colombian collective Aluna Minga in Munich and has received several distinctions from the Heinrich-Böll Stiftung (Germany), Tsinghua University (China), among others.
Information on participating / attending:
The event will take place online via Zoom.
Please register for the Zoom session using this link: https://eveeno.com/gender-just
Date:
03/31/2022 17:00 - 03/31/2022 18:30
Event venue:
Video conference
Potsdam
Brandenburg
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Environment / ecology, Oceanology / climate, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
03/09/2022
Sender/author:
Bianca Schröder
Department:
Presse und Kommunikation
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event70966
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