Abstract
Climate Change has an overwhelming health impact on all, especially on the women, constituting around 49. 58% of the global population. There is ample literary evidence in support of the claim that a changing climate has a differentiated impact on humanity and that it is not “gender neutral”. Climate driven food scarcity, poor air quality, rising temperature and extreme weather events (floods, droughts, heat waves etc. ), acute water shortage, increasing incidence of vector borne diseases make the situation all the more dreadful for women in particular. And this vulnerability gets even more critical because of various biological, political, social and cultural factors that historically contributed against women and their empowerment. Though women are reservoirs of indigenous knowledge about how to deal with the aftermath of climatic changes, yet they remain largely untapped. However the importance of gender based climate action plan was long absent in arena of international climate negotiation. It was only in COP7 (2001) where women’s involvement in climate action had first caught global attention and subsequently nodal international bodies are working on formulating programmes and appropriate policies for promoting gender balance. However, the progress on this has been limited in comparison to the magnitude of impacts of climatic changes on women’s health and hence much more needs to be done on the policy front so as to promote gender equity and women’s participation in various adaptation and mitigation policies.
Highlights
Climate change, with its dire consequences, poses the biggest threat to the humanity (WHO 2003),(IPCC 2007), (IPCC 2018)
CONTACT Kuheli Mukhopadhyay kuheli.gcpju@gmail.com Department of Economics, Sonamukhi College, Sonamukhi, MUKHOPADHYAY & DAS, Current Research Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 02(2) 79-86 (2019) 80 both men and women are exposed to the adverse health impacts resulting from climatic threats, yet, it is women who are likely to face the greatest brunt of coping with climate related shocks (WHO 2014), (Brody, Demetriades and Esplen 2008)
Poverty aggravates discrimination based on gender and this leads to increased health issues for women in the face of climate change-thereby forming an inevitable nexus
Summary
With its dire consequences, poses the biggest threat to the humanity (WHO 2003),. Proper representation of women in decision making at household but at all levels will ensure a fair distribution of financial assets and economic empowerment which is an important means of reducing this vulnerability Given this background, the present article tries to show how adoption of a comprehensive approach with gender integration in existing development and climate policies impact women’s health. The global network of Gender CC, working for gender equality, women’s rights and climate justice came into existence in 2008 Their main focus was to raise awareness and develop capacity to fight against the dual challenge of gender and climate change by empowering both men and women and this will help to develop comprehensive climate policies by integrating them in mitigation and adaptation actions. It becomes evident that some progress has already been made in tackling the complex issues of climate change, women and their health implications, a lot more needs to be done to boost up the strength of the small and vulnerable states
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