Women's representative in Klagenfurt: Together for a future climate -friendly!

Women's representative in Klagenfurt: Together for a future climate -friendly!

Klagenfurt, Österreich - The annual networking meeting of the women's representatives took place in Klagenfurt and offered a platform to discuss current topics in the field of gender equality and climate change. The conference focuses on the climate and gender-friendly design of urban areas as well as the Health effects of climate change that affect women globally disproportionately. Women are particularly at risk in agricultural professions, which underlines the need for common strategies to solve these challenges. Constance Mochar, a women's officer from Klagenfurt, emphasized the disadvantage of women in many areas and pointed out that public spaces have to do justice to the needs of women, with or without children.

As part of the event, not only lectures were given, but also presented experience reports. These offer review and new impulses for women's policy in the cities of Austria and illustrate the relevance of the topic in times of structural reforms and climate change. Measures for the coming year are already planned to continue the discourse and strengthen the concerns of women.

research and gender equality in climate policy

The Center for Planetary Health Policy (CPHP) has submitted a statement that highlights the importance of gender-friendly climate health in North Rhine-Westphalia. On March 1, 2024, an expertise will be published that focuses on the interactions between health and gender in the context of climate change. This expertise is published by the Federal Ministry for Women, Seniors, Family and Youth (BMFSFJ).

The research landscape on gender dimensions in health -related climate adaptation shows many deficits. There are significant gaps in knowledge with regard to the differences in climate -relevant health consequences between the sexes. Studies show gender -specific differences, but often the cause research and the differentiation of the underlying factors remains inadequate.

• women are average more susceptible to the consequences of climate change due to higher poverty risks and lower income.
• The effects of heat waves are particularly serious for women because they are more affected by the heat -related mortality due to their higher life expectancy.

global perspectives: women and natural disasters

The gender -specific effects of natural disasters are another important topic. For example, four times as many women as men died at the Tsunami in Southeast Asia in 2004. Among other things, the reasons for this are the lower ability to swim and the responsibility that many women bear for children and older family members. This inequality shows how important it is to involve gender justice in climate policy, since women often have a lower social status and less political and economic power.

various feminist networks have been committed to integrating gender issues into climate policy since the World Women's Conference in Beijing in 1995. A future -proof approach to combat climate change must therefore take into account the gender dimension in order to develop a comprehensive and inclusive solution.