“Whenever a world conference convenes to address a problem like violence against women, food insecurity or, say, climate change, you’ll likely find some women in the room, just not too many.”
, which sounds more like a wish than anything else, is the part where it “recognizes that the full, meaningful and equal participation and leadership of women in all aspects of the UNFCCC process and in national and local-level climate policy and action is vital for achieving long-term climate goals.”
As has been shown again and again, developing countries and vulnerable populations — often women and girls — bear the brunt of climate change despite contributing to it the least. They lose money from failing crops and dying oceans, or are sickened by pollutive extraction industries that are exacerbating the crisis. They have to walk ever farther to find firewood and water for their families.
Still, advocacy groups say that all countries but one, Austria, have chosen to redirect money from what would have been financing for emissions reductions in order to fund these deficits. It’s a game of shuffling around funding that, unfortunately, equals net zero . Such policies “may come with unfavorable financial terms that insufficiently reflect the need for main emitters to take their responsibility, so insurance approaches need to be carefully designed to match pro-poor principles and gender considerations,” Harmeling said.
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