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
Highlights
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- People and Planet: Gender, Environment and Climate in the 2030 Agenda
- Gender integration in renewable energy policy - A guideline for renewable energy policy and decision makers
- Costing Options for Measuring Gender Equality in Climate Action
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Women and Energy Enterprises
- Review of gender-responsiveness and disability-inclusion in disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific
- Annual Report 2019: Reaching for Resilience
- The impact of COVID-19 on rural women and enterprises: A rapid socio-economic assessment in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Viet Nam by the EmPower project
- How do we Empower Women in the face of climate change - Poster
Stories of EmPowerment
Hear from diverse voices in Asia-Pacific, how women, men and marginalized groups are making a difference to tackle climate change and build more resilient lives. Through the lenses of gender equality and human rights, we discover how climate action and disaster risk reduction can be more inclusive and impactful.