Putting gender equality at the heart of climate action and resilience
Raising women’s voices and leadership is critical for decision-making in climate change
Renewable energy can be a catalyst for women’s sustainable livelihoods
Women and marginalized groups are a fountain of solutions for climate change and disaster risk reduction
For women to be able to adapt to climate change and disasters, they need to be able to access, use and feed into knowledge, technology, finance and policy
Women for Climate-Resilient Societies
The Asia and the Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change impacts in the world. Women are extremely sensitive to these changes given their lack of access to essential resources such as land, finance or information. Because the nexus between gender and climate change is often underestimated, UN Women and UN Environment jointly created the EmPower project. Targeting Bangladesh, Cambodia and Vietnam, EmPower aims to build women’s resilience facing climate change, over a period of five years (2018-2022) with the financial support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. Read more
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- Event: 2nd Project Steering Committee Meeting
Second project steering committee meeting, EmPower - Women for Climate Resilient Societies, 20 January 2020. Read more >> - How do we Empower Women in the face of climate change - Poster
Stories of EmPowerment
Vegetable gardens bring veritable gains for women in climate-struck Cambodia
On the road winding into Chreng village in Cambodia’s Pursat province, a group of boys are playing volleyball on an arid plot of land as villagers watch and cheer. Around the corner, 24-year-old Lang Sokang is knee-deep in mulch,...
Building a climate-resilient Asia-Pacific
To build long-lasting resilience to climate change, the Asia-Pacific region must address the root causes of two of its most pressing challenges: human vulnerability and gender inequality. Women and girls in Asia-Pacific make up 80...
Pig Pens Power Solution to Climate Change in Viet Nam
When Tranh Thi Gam first started her biogas digester business, she raised many eyebrows. In the little district of Ung Hoa, located south of Viet Nam’s capital, Hanoi, villagers were not accustomed to seeing a woman take the reins of a...
Project to empower women in climate change decisions in Cambodia
Phnom Penh, Cambodia — A project to strengthen women’s resilience to climate change and natural disasters in Cambodia has begun with government, civil society and women’s groups, and United Nations agencies discussing the best ways...
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