Climate change is an environmental issue, but it is also a justice issue as the negative impacts of climate change are felt more acutely by people in the most marginalized conditions. Communities and groups who are already facing discrimination and exclusion experience the impacts on a disproportionate basis, amplifying inequalities and undermining sustainable development across all regions.
- the EU's international role | international cooperation
- Tuesday 23 January 2024, 10:00 - 11:30 (CET)
Practical information
- When
- Tuesday 23 January 2024, 10:00 - 11:30 (CET)
- Where
- InfoPoint and Webex Meetings
- Languages
- English, French
- Organisers
- International Partnerships InfoPoint
Description
The EU Gender Action Plan III underlines how women and girls are particularly affected by the impact of climate change and environmental degradation, such as ecosystem loss, loss of access to key natural resources, malnutrition and respiratory, water-related and vector-borne diseases. Looking at climate change through an intersectional lens - the way different forms of inequality often operate together and reinforce each other - climate change risks are acute for persons with disabilities, particularly women and girls, older people, LGBTIQ people, indigenous women and girls, migrant women, and those living in rural, remote, conflict- and disaster-prone areas.
The EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, together with the EU’s Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024 and the EU Gender Action Plan III 2021- 2025 lay out the EU’s ambitions to step up action to combat all forms of discrimination that persons with disabilities face, with a specific attention to multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. Moreover, the EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities addresses the significant impacts that climate change can have on persons with disabilities and commits to ensure that the green transition to a climate neutral and resilient society is just and inclusive and involves persons with disabilities.
Few weeks after the conduction of the COP28, DG INTPA is organising a hybrid InfoPoint session aiming at increasing synergies and visibility of EU commitment and actions regarding a gender responsive and disability inclusive climate action, and discussing international processes (COP28) and challenges and best practices by giving voice to partners working in the field.
Speakers
- Micha Ramakers, Deputy Head of Unit “Gender Equality, Human Rights and Democratic Governance”, INTPA G1
- Shitaye Astawes, Director for Advocacy and Communication at the African Disability Forum (ADF)
- Suraj Sigdel, CBM Global Country Director in Nepal
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