A particularly interesting fragment from a podcast episode, Gayle Lemmon on making the invisible visible | Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, 22 June 2023:
You cannot talk about Climate without talking about Gender …
We wrote a paper in 2014 for the Council on Foreign Relations … called Fragile States, Fragile Lives, about climate, natural disaster, and child marriage.
And the fact is that the minute you have fragility, it is girls whose lives pay the price. 80% of those displaced by climate are women.
Women are 14 times more likely to die in natural disaster.
If you got women equal access to inputs, you could make up for the food lost to climate, basically through better farming production.
And in places that experience drought, child marriage rates go up to 118% higher.
So all of this stuff matters, but we never talk about it.