COP 26 Day 9 | ‘Climate change is sexist’
Euronews Green delivers a Special COP26 email to my mailbox every day during the two weeks it is running (01-12 November 2021). I’ll publish it in its entirety for those who are interested. This is the sixth in the series.
Today’s takeaway
On Gender Day, COP26 turned its focus to the disproportionate climate impacts suffered by women and girls across the world.
“Climate change is sexist,” a US government official put it on Tuesday. 80 per cent of people displaced by climate change are women and children, according to UNFCC.
“But women and girls are also leading efforts to tackle climate change in communities around the world,” said COP26 chairman Alok Sharma as he outlined pledges for gender-responsive climate finance.
The puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian girl known as Little Amal made the journey to Glasgow to “represent all girls who could not be here,” at COP26, said Samoan activist Brianna Fruean as she opened the Gender Day lead event with Amal.
Meanwhile, the hard work on the summit’s cover decision continued in negotiation rooms. The UK presidency said it will publish a first draft of the summit’s final decision overnight. New texts have been tabled on time frames, transparency, finance and adaptation so far.
“We still have a mountain to climb,” warned Sharma as the clock ticked to strike a deal that will help limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
New forecasts released on Tuesday suggest the world is still far off that number. Think tank Climate Action Tracker said current climate policies put us on track to a scary 2.7 degrees Celsius warming – or 2.4 C if all governments met their 2030 targets.
If you weren’t able to follow along on Monday, here are five takeaways from Day 8.
At a glance
Five reasons climate change affects women more than men
Women and girls experience violence and a lack of access to education as a direct result of the climate crisis.
What is land inequality and how does it threaten women?
Land inequality is directly threatening 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest people including women, according to a recent report.
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COP26: Why has a speech by Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister gone viral?
Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister Simon Kofe spoke to Euronews after a video of his speech at COP26 showing him standing knee-deep in seawater took the internet by storm.
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Thanks Lona–had another unexpected project slow my usual news consumption. So glad I could count on the highlights and lowlights from you.