Cindy Carr, cindy.carr@sierraclub.org
KATOWICE, POLAND -- Today, on Gender Day at the COP24 UN climate negotiations and following yesterday’s 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Sierra Club and UN Women released a new report, Women on the Move in a Changing Climate: A discussion paper on gender, climate and mobility. The report examines how gender informs the needs, challenges, roles, decision-making responsibilities, and leadership in the context of climate-related mobility.
In response, Sierra Club Gender Equity and Environment Campaign Representative and report author Jessica Olson released the following statement:
"This report is not a conclusion but rather an opening for discussions on how to best ensure that gender and human rights are meaningfully considered and included in any climate policy. If one thing is clear from this report, it is that women and communities have the solutions and must have a full and equal role in developing climate policies and self determination in responses to the climate crisis. The rights of all people grappling with climate mobility must be treated with the utmost importance.”
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To read the new report, click here.
To read the COP24 report annex, click here.
About the Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 3 million members and supporters. In addition to helping people from all backgrounds explore nature and our outdoor heritage, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.