Book chapter: “Toward Gender and Climate Justice: Women, Climate Action Projects for Accelerated Transition, and Transformative Change in the Global South”

Climate change disproportionately affects women and marginal groups, by 2050, 158 million women could be in extreme poverty as a consequence of climate effects (UN Women & DESA, 2024, p. 7). The SMARTS center’s latest publication in the upcoming book "The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action", an outcome of EDITS-AIT project, edited by Paul Almeida explores the enablers and barriers of climate justice and gender equity. Joyee S. Chatterjee, Sirayuth Thongprasert, Parimita Mohanty, and Joyashree Roy examine climate action projects in South and Southeast Asia, across the sectors of agriculture, energy, and disaster risk reduction. Focusing on women, the chapter “Toward Gender and Climate Justice: Women, Climate Action Projects for Accelerated Transition, and Transformative Change in the Global South” critically assesses the integration of gender transformative goals at local, national, and/or regional scales using our conceptual framework of “Continuum of Approaches on Gender and Climate Action”. Findings show that social and climate injustice creeps in or gets exacerbated through projects which by design or oversight exclude some groups or communities, follow siloed project designs, adopt infrastructure- and technology-centered approaches rather than people-centered, and lack capacity, financing, and adequate data. To read more click on the links below.

The EDITS-AIT project is funded under the Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations (EDITS) project, which is part of an initiative coordinated by the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Benigna Boza-Kiss

Click here for the chapter https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197762097.013.0024 and book details https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197762097.001.0001

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