{"id":58994,"date":"2023-03-30T13:43:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T11:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=58994"},"modified":"2024-06-13T12:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:14:33","slug":"limate-intersectionality-women-gender-race-class-fossil-fuels-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/58994\/limate-intersectionality-women-gender-race-class-fossil-fuels-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Can gender equality end the climate crisis? Here\u2019s 5 blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Looking for blogs that unpack the relationship between gender, human rights and climate breakdown? We\u2019ve got you covered.<\/p>\n\n<p>As the United Nations says, gender inequality coupled with the climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Women and gender minorities are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/news-stories\/explainer\/2022\/02\/explainer-how-gender-inequality-and-climate-change-are-interconnected#:~:text=The%20climate%20crisis%20is%20not,less%20access%20to%2C%20natural%20resources.\">hit harder by the fossil-fuelled climate crisis<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>During extreme weather events, <a href=\"https:\/\/unfoundation.org\/blog\/post\/five-facts-about-gender-equality-and-climate-change\/\">women and gender minorities are more likely to be injured and less likely to survive<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They have lower incomes and less access to information.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Those who do survive have limited access to disaster relief.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ViDtnfQ9FHc\">Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BnAW4NyOak\">explained<\/a> when she first coined the term <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/what-is-intersectionality-explained\/\">intersectionality<\/a> in 1989, a person may be oppressed and differently impacted by \u201ca combination of interconnected social structures\u201d. These break down into many categories that intersect, such as (but not limited to) race, gender, sexuality and class.<\/p>\n\n<p>Here are five blogs that delve into the intersectionality around gender and the climate crisis:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Their futures depend upon it.<br><br>It turns out \u2014 so do ours.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TransformingEducationSummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TransformingEducationSummit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eHR9e44zZY\">pic.twitter.com\/eHR9e44zZY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Vanessa Nakate (@vanessa_vash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanessa_vash\/status\/1572058631809425408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Vanessa Nakate on why education for girls is essential for climate justice<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>In this excerpt from the Ugandan youth climate activist\u2019s book, Nakate stresses the importance of access to education for girls in addressing the climate crisis. She points out that without education girls will never find themselves in decision-making roles and cannot inform the climate interventions that concern them.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Nakate writes:<\/strong> <em>Of course, I care about boys\u2019 education as well, and with two brothers, I have to. But across sub-Saharan Africa, at least 33 million girls who could be in primary and lower secondary school aren\u2019t (equivalent to elementary and middle school and the first two years of high school). More than 50 million girls in the region are missing out on receiving an upper secondary school education (equivalent to the last two years of high school in the US or the sixth form in the UK). Around the world, more than 130 million girls aren\u2019t in school and should be. If they had the chance, how many of these young women could be teachers, lawyers, doctors, NGO staffers, members of parliament, or climate scientists?<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><em>I think of it like this: girls and women are more than half the world\u2019s population. If we are to successfully address the climate crisis, we need women in the rooms where decisions are being made that affect the climate (and almost all decisions now do). Educating girls brings them into those rooms, and expands the number and approaches of possible decision-makers and solutions.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/52136\/vanessa-nakate-book-excerpt-education-for-girls-is-essential-for-climate-justice\/\">Read article<\/a>)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Lisa G\u00f6ldner on economic gender inequality and fossil fuels<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>The exclusion Nakate talks about is already evident in the current status quo, where women and gender minorities are economically disadvantaged by dirty energy industries, says German climate campaigner G\u00f6ldner &#8211; be it unequal pay in comparison to men, or the disproportionate economic impact of rising energy prices on them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>G\u00f6ldner writes:<\/strong> <em>Inside the inherently patriarchal energy sector, extractive industries like coal, oil and gas traditionally have the lowest percentage of female employees, and even fewer women who reach managerial positions. Wages for female employees in the energy sector are almost 20% lower than for male employees in some European countries. In 2021, the fossil fuel industry had the largest gender pay gap compared to other science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) industries in Australia. And in Canada for example, the extractive industry is allegedly among the largest single drivers of income inequality, contributing to an astonishing 6.7% of the national wage gap.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Economic gender inequality can be expected to grow as a result of the current energy crisis, reversing years of progress, as women are impacted disproportionately by rising energy costs due to their lower average income. While many women and gender minorities, and the people that depend on their income, struggle to make ends meet, the fossil fuel industry is making record-breaking profits.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/58515\/fossil-fuel-industry-inherently-patriarchal-criminal\/\">Read article<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CphavPNM3FR\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CphavPNM3FR\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CphavPNM3FR\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Greenpeace International \ud83c\udf0d (@greenpeace)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Oliver Meth on how Big Oil perpetuates gender-based violence and femicide<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>The same way that economic inequality impacts women and gender minorities\u2019 ability to survive extreme weather events unharmed, it impacts on their overall, day-to-day safety. The South African activist highlights the economic impact of environmental pollution on women from low-income communities, which leaves them more vulnerable to gender-based violence (GBV).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Meth writes: <\/strong><em>Many of the risk factors to gender based violence experienced in Wentworth are aggravated by slow-onset climate events such as the degradation of our air and water. We\u2019ve seen how environmental pollution in the area has accelerated the pre-existing gender inequalities, dispossession, marginalisation and discrimination of girls and womxn in all their diversities. It has caused great risks to womxn and girls\u2019 livelihoods.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Gender inequalities and male economic supremacy over household incomes are perpetuated by the petroleum refineries\u2019 practices of largely male employment. Yet, it is largely womxn who bear the burden for the finance and care of their household, either as the primary breadwinner of a female-headed household or for their unit within a polygamous household. <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/56944\/big-oil-gender-violence-femicide-16-days-activism-south-africa\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Thandile Chinyavanhu on how extreme weather events threaten to derail women\u2019s development&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>As the climate crisis worsens, extreme weather events are becoming more and more frequent. Apart from the immediate danger that these disasters pose, explains South African campaigner Chinyavanhu, they also stand to derail interventions specifically developed to tackle gender inequality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Chinyavanhu writes: <\/strong><em>The early lockdown measures imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus [COVID-19] at the beginning of 2020 led to a spike in domestic gender-based violence incidence. South Africa saw a 37% spike in GBV reports during the first week of lockdown. This was a consequence of the South African government\u2019s siloed approach to crisis management, leading to multiple deficits and blind spots that can only be rectified retrospectively.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><em>In KwaZulu-Natal, it is essential that the government re-establishes stability while prioritising an intersectional approach, which centers on women\u2019s rights in its solutions. Extreme weather events have already disrupted education and vital health services and threaten to derail development outcomes for adolescent girls, particularly; gender equality, quality education and no poverty. Climate change is a gender issue and unless our government can mitigate its impacts, more women will be plunged into poverty.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/publications\/51213\/climate-change-is-a-gender-issue-kzn-floods-threaten-to-derail-womens-development-outcomes\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CqKujSYIdKQ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CqKujSYIdKQ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CqKujSYIdKQ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Greenpeace International \ud83c\udf0d (@greenpeace)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dr Mehmet B\u00f6r\u00fchan Bulut and Marie Bout on the importance of women\u2019s leadership in tackling the climate crisis<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/h3>\n\n<p>The energy activists say that while women are often left out of decision-making, they play a key role in energy issues and the clean energy transition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Bulut and Bout write: <\/strong><em>Research has shown that women are generally environmentally friendlier and more energy efficient than men, while being more supportive of renewable energy and opposing fossil fuels. This is also reflected when women are in decision-making positions; an analysis shows that female legislators in the European Parliament are more likely to support pro-environmental legislation than men, also in examples of countries and companies with higher gender equality have better environmental performance. It would benefit all of us to support women to be empowered in decisive and leadership roles. <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/58938\/how-the-energy-crisis-is-reversing-gender-equality\/\">Read article<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"EmptyMessage\">Block content is empty. Check the block&#8217;s settings or remove it.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for blogs that unpack the relationship between gender, human rights and climate breakdown? 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