Women, Gender Equality and Climate Change

Activities designed for students of 2nd BACH

Homework
It will be collected and marked
Students have to find information on the internet.

Here are some examples by:

The Threarts of Climate Change
are not Gender – Neutral

Climate Change hitting Women disproportionately

Lecture by Eugenia Pintos

Eugenia Pintos Aris, born in Pontevedra in 1983.
Studied Biology at Santiago de Compostela University.
Erasmus student at Wageningen University, Netherlands.
Scholarship at Lourizán Research Center. Research topic: the contribution of wildfires, green house gases released during burning combustion,  to climate change.
Master of science, MSc, in Earth system sciences at Wageningen University.
Master of science in Environmental Technology at University of Vigo.
As from 2008 and up to the present working for a company in the field of environmental impact assessment in Santiago de Compostela.
As from 2009 PhD in Biology, topic Environmental impact assessment, at the University of Santiago de Comspotela.

Abstract

According to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report “Climate Change 2007”, warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and the probability that this is caused by natural climatic processes alone is less than 5%. Stated this as a fact, the power point presentation aimed at unravel the causes, consequences and solutions to this anthropogenic perturbation of the climate system and dealt with the impacts of climate change on women in developing countries.
Women account for 70% of the poor in the world, they are responsible for the maintenance of their families and their livelihood: they fetch water, grow the staple crops and look after the children and the sick. Due to the consequences of climate change (draughts, food insecurity, extreme weather events etc) girls have to give up school in order to spend more time fetching water and looking for fuels. Moreover, women are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change because they cannot escape during natural disasters.
But women are also powerful agents of change by playing a key role in energy consumption, deforestation, burning of vegetation, population growth and economic growth (IUCN 2007). This presentation showed how women’s empowerment is now being linked to climate change solutions through initiatives like Kenya’s Greenbelt Movement, founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai, or the Multifunctional Platform Project. Finally we addressed the issues that still need to be done in order to achieve the goal 3 (“promote gender equality and empower women”) of the millennium development goals by 2015, in the framework of climate change.

Listening Test: It will be collected and marked

Answer key