Gender, climate change and disasters: Vulnerabilities, responses, and imagining a more caring and better world

This is a background paper which formed part of the 66th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) Expert Meeting on Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes, prepared by Bernadette P. Resurrección of Queen’s University, Canada.

The objectives of this background paper are two-fold: to shed light on and learn from the thinking and action in the sphere of gender, climate change and disasters; and to more fully enable sufficiently well-grounded responses leading towards a more liveable and caring world.