Shades of Equality: Climate Palette
The impact of climate change is global…and also gendered.
The Shades of Equality Climate palette shares more about how climate change affects all of us, and some ways in which it also disproportionately affects women around the world.
These Shades of Equality make facts and figures more digestible, and sharable in creative ways.
Collection Aqua stems from a UN Women report on the gendered impact of climate change: "For women, inadequate water supplies pose additional burdens. In a single day in 25 sun Saharan African countries, women spend 16 million hours collecting water, often to detriment of schooling or paid work, and with potential health risks from repeatedly carrying heavy burdens over long distances."
Disaster Brown stems from an Oxfam report that found that in the wake of the 2004 tsunami, surviving men outnumbered women by almost 3:1 in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India.
Climate Care Clementine comes from UN data showing that in certain countries, only 56% of men consider climate change a serious problem, vs. 83% of women who consider it a big problem.
All Talk Amethyst tells the story of how governments implement their current obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the fair and equal sharing of benefits chiefly through national biodiversity strategies and action plans. Analysis of 254 such strategies and action plans of 174 countries over 23 years (1993–2016) showed that 56% refer to women or gender, and 25% of the 174 most recent strategies and action plans include gender considerations or activities involving women, but only 9% have a corresponding dedicated budget.
How might you use the Shades of Equality’s Climate palette to advocate for better policies and actions to combat climate change? Tell us in the comments, or share on social media and tag us @genEqualityOrg.
