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Podcast: Middle East Dossier
Episode: Pushing the Boundaries: Gender and Climate Change in the GCC
Description: The United Nations’ Women agency, in an explainer, stated categorically that the global climate crisis is not “gender neutral”, since women and girls experience the greatest impacts of this phenomenon, which in turn amplifies existing gender inequalities. Conversely, the findings by Project Drawdown, a non-profit organisation that researches on climate solutions, reveal that access to family planning services for women, girls, and couples, constitutes one of the top three solutions to combat climate change.
With the 28th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 28) taking place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), mainstreaming climate concerns in the Arab r...