Gender and Climate Change

Author(s): 
Emmeline Skinner
Organization(s): 
Institute of Development Studies

Overview/summary:

Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions, rather than on the significant human and gender dimensions. This report highlights the need to put people at the centre of climate change responses, paying particular attention to the challenges and opportunities that climate change presents in the struggle for gender equality.