Researchers from Lehigh University and Tulane University have found that female economic empowerment is connected to reductions in number of people…

By Angelica Wågström, intern at GenderCC

My disaster is not the same as your disaster, even if it has the same name. Our different positions in a…

The Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) released a mobile app at COP22 for “decision-makers and advocates” to track and address…

That meat consumption is linked to large carbon emissions is not a new fact, neither is the insight that men in general consume more meat than women…

Securing women’s right to land can offer great benefits for socio-economic development as well as for reducing climate change. Since the Paris…

Climate change and inequality are two sides of the same coin, Majandra Rodriguez Acha writes in Open Democracy. To put environmental concerns against…

To combat the impacts of climate change, indigenous women of Laramate in Peru have turned to ancestral farming techniques with support from UN Women's…

In a discussion paper by the global network MenEngage Alliance, the authors argue that harmful ideas of masculinity perpetuate climate change. Efforts…

During a Habitat III preparation meeiting in Surabaya, Indonesia, a joint side event on gender and urban development was organised by UN-Habitat, UN…

Men and women both have the right to be involved in decision making on climate policy, whether at the city or community level. Climate policy will…