Newsflash: COP26 and Gender
I am just checking in as we reach the half-way point of COP26 in Glasgow and give a brief update on a water related coalition that has been formed.
1) A new group called the Water and Climate Coalition has been launched which aims to establish better links between both the water crisis and the climate crisis. 80 percent of climate impacts are manifested through water; whether that be extreme precipitation, drought, melting ice or the rising sea levels .
2) I would also like to draw attention to this video posted on COP26's YouTube channel from the Women in Finance Climate Action Group.
I would particularly recommend watching Chikondi Chabvuta, advocacy and partnerships coordinator for CARE in Southern Africa. Chabvuta outlines the case for action and speaks specifically of Malawi with regards to the climate crisis. She also speaks of the dreadful effects the El Niño drought in Malawi had upon women through utterly depleting their savings due to the inability they had to lead an alternative livelihood. This led to the women collaborating together to create an emergency fund in the village savings and loans schemes.
Chabvuta then speaks of how only a few years later Cyclone Idai hit Malawi and whilst a tragedy it gave them opportunity to see the impact of female groups receiving payouts. This of women in Malawi showed first hand the importance of diversifying climate insurance schemes. There are evidently merits to women playing a financially active role in their future and ultimately being part of the climate decision making process. This lead me to read this paper by Wong (2016) in which he evaluates the ability of climate finance in contributing towards gender equity in developing countries. The paper allowed me to draw parallels to our second blogpost about “Water is Life” in which access to land is mentioned as a considerable problem for females.
Linked to this, Wong demonstrates that the effectiveness of climate finance is highly constrained from a lack of awareness of the gender gap in access to land and capital. For this to change, policy makers in countries like Kenya must tackle these intensely rooted structural inequalities. Lastly, Wong speaks about the ability of climate finance to aid disaster management and the importance of capturing “everyday practices of disaster response” (Artur & Hilhorst, 2012, p.530)With disaster management, a theme which will be greater explored in a later blog post, for climate finance to make a real difference the cultural norms that shape information dissemination must be better explored.
Hopefully this YouTube video will also encourage you to pursue an educational tangent!
1) A new group called the Water and Climate Coalition has been launched which aims to establish better links between both the water crisis and the climate crisis. 80 percent of climate impacts are manifested through water; whether that be extreme precipitation, drought, melting ice or the rising sea levels .
2) I would also like to draw attention to this video posted on COP26's YouTube channel from the Women in Finance Climate Action Group.
I would particularly recommend watching Chikondi Chabvuta, advocacy and partnerships coordinator for CARE in Southern Africa. Chabvuta outlines the case for action and speaks specifically of Malawi with regards to the climate crisis. She also speaks of the dreadful effects the El Niño drought in Malawi had upon women through utterly depleting their savings due to the inability they had to lead an alternative livelihood. This led to the women collaborating together to create an emergency fund in the village savings and loans schemes.
Chabvuta then speaks of how only a few years later Cyclone Idai hit Malawi and whilst a tragedy it gave them opportunity to see the impact of female groups receiving payouts. This of women in Malawi showed first hand the importance of diversifying climate insurance schemes. There are evidently merits to women playing a financially active role in their future and ultimately being part of the climate decision making process. This lead me to read this paper by Wong (2016) in which he evaluates the ability of climate finance in contributing towards gender equity in developing countries. The paper allowed me to draw parallels to our second blogpost about “Water is Life” in which access to land is mentioned as a considerable problem for females.
Linked to this, Wong demonstrates that the effectiveness of climate finance is highly constrained from a lack of awareness of the gender gap in access to land and capital. For this to change, policy makers in countries like Kenya must tackle these intensely rooted structural inequalities. Lastly, Wong speaks about the ability of climate finance to aid disaster management and the importance of capturing “everyday practices of disaster response” (Artur & Hilhorst, 2012, p.530)With disaster management, a theme which will be greater explored in a later blog post, for climate finance to make a real difference the cultural norms that shape information dissemination must be better explored.
Hopefully this YouTube video will also encourage you to pursue an educational tangent!
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