Impacts of climate change affect the poorest countries the most, given their lack of capacity to prepare for and cope with the impacts of climate change. Among developing countries, men and women don’t experience the same impacts of climate change. First because women constitute the majority of the world’s poor, and also because of the fact that climate change itself is a result of deliberate political and economic policies that are deeply patriarchal. Research shows that women are the worst impacted by climate change. For instance, they are exposed to increased risks because of their primary role in care work and agricultural production and because climate change is increasing the burden of water and food collection, which usually falls on women.
With this fellowship, we see a severe need to strengthen gender analysis, and aim to start a conversation in mainstream and alternative media, setting a context for feminist, fossil fuel free futures as a driver for just and equitable transitions for climate justice. There is an urgency in communicating the possibility of having a climate just future in the deadlock of negotiations where countries and private sectors still work on the lines of ‘development’ agenda in the linear economic models.
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