Resources

AAAS for the Global Alliance for Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce, 2000 Booklet offers examples of how science, engineering, and technology intersect the critical issues articulated in the 1995 Platform for Action from the Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China.

CCAFS/CARE International/ICRAF

Fact sheet provides an analysis of how women are affected by climate change and how they respond, together with references to relevant United Nations mandates and information sources.

Working paper traces the ways in which women’s economic empowerment through climate mitigation and adaptation fosters economic growth and socioeconomic development, reduces poverty, keeps environmental problems in check, and increases the potential for adaptation.

Report maps pathways for making climate change responses more gender aware and potentially transformative, arguing that gender transformation should be both a potential end goal and an important condition of effective climate change responses and poverty reduction [Available in English, Spanish and French]

Guide for practitioners and policy makers on the linkages between gender equality and climate change and their importance in relation to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, highlighting why it is important to include women in climate change policy and programming, and demonstrating how women’s contributions can strengthen the effectiveness of climate change measures

GenderInSITE, 2015: Fact sheet provides at-a-glance overview of gender issues in climate change.