Building Climate Resilience
The role of gender-focused investments
to tackle climate change challenges
UN Women
Our technical report
Gendered analysis of the impact of climate change on poverty, productivity and food insecurity.
This report details our foresight analysis, highlighting five scenarios of varying impacts of climate change on women's lives, and the role of investments in mitigating them.
Eseta_Uasila’a of Tonga. Photo: UN Women/Montira Narkvichien
A focus on Asia and the Pacific
The Asia-Pacific region is especially vulnerable to climate change and is forecasted to suffer significantly greater impacts on poverty relative to the world. This highlights the importance of allocating funds to mitigation efforts (e.g. reducing emissions, curbing waste production, conserving biodiversity), as well as adaptation and disaster response capabilities in this region.
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