Gender and Climate Change: A Climate Equity Vision for now

Climate change and its impacts exacerbate inequalities in a society. Especially in a country like India, the impacts of climate change are felt more severely by socially, economically and politically marginalised populations.Women, particularly those belonging to marginalised communities, are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis. Despite this, women’s voices and issues are absent from a large number of policy measures focusing on mitigating climate change and adapting to its impacts. Given the gendered impacts of climate change, there is an urgent need to build a framework focussing on women’s vulnerability induced by climate change. To this end, Asar Social Impact Advisors, India, published this framework on April 25, 2023. It has been designed by Supriya Tirkey. The Gender and Climate Programme at Asar Social Impact Advisors builds networks to bolster women’s leadership and resilience against climate change. This framework was built under this Programme.The Gender Transformative Climate Framework presented in this 8-page document was developed in two phases. In the first phase, a draft framework was conceptualised which linked the basic causes of gender inequalities to underlying climate-induced vulnerabilities...