Gender equality goals under threat in climate crisis-hit countries, says UN

The climate crisis affects everybody but there are subgroups least able to adapt... It puts pressure on the most impoverished and further drives existing inequality.

We often concentrate on the externality of disasters, for example by focusing on death rates, Burns said. But we don't look at the long-term impacts that instabilities have on communities. It is usually women who act as shock absorbers during crisis.

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