Bridging the gender, climate, and health gap: the road to COP29.

ABSTRACT: Focusing specifically on the gender-climate-health nexus, this Personal View builds on existing feminist works and analyses to discuss why intersectional approaches to climate policy and inclusive representation in climate decision making are crucial for achieving just and equitable solutions to address the impacts of climate change on human health and societies. This Personal View highlights how women, girls, and gender-diverse people often face disproportionate climate-related health impacts, particularly those who experience compounding and overlapping vulnerabilities due to current and former systems of oppression. We summarise the insufficient meaningful inclusion of gender, health, and their intersection in international climate governance. Despite the tendency to conflate gender equ

SUBMITTER: van Daalen KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11634786 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature