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How Gender-responsive Age-sensitive Social Protection is Related to the Climate Crisis
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Highlights
This paper outlines how climate change can create specific gendered risks based on age and stage of the life course.
Critical gendered risks for women that increase their vulnerability to climate shocks include: discriminatory social and gender norms; inadequate access to and control of assets and crucial resources; concentration in low-wage casual employment; limited representation in policy discussions and key decision-making processes.
Gender-responsive and age-sensitive social protection – an important instrument in a suite of tools in the broader response to the climate crisis – can play a crucial role in addressing or minimizing negative climate impacts, including those that affect girls, boys and women.
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