Systemic Solutions for Climate Change: Making Gender Equity a Reality

This webinar is free and open to the public thanks to the generous support of the Kavli Foundation.

Climate change has a disproportionate impact on women due to gender roles. It reduces women’s ability to be financially independent and has an overall negative impact on the social and political rights of women, especially in the developing world.

Yet women play a crucial role in climate change adaptation and mitigation. Because women see and experience climate change differently, they have a different and valuable understanding of how societies can adapt to changing conditions and devise practical solutions. They remain, however, a largely untapped resource.

During this webinar, speakers discussed the importance of understanding climate change as a product of social and economic inequalities facing women and other marginalized populations.

Speakers:
Susanne Moser, Director and Principal Researcher of Susanne Moser Research & Consulting;
Amy Westervelt, founder of the Critical Frequency podcast network and award-winning print and audio journalist;
Kiran Asher, Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts;
Greta Gaard, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls; and
Andrea Vega Troncoso, Project and Communications Associate at WEDO.

This webinar was be moderated by Julia Hathaway, a postdoctoral associate with the Alda Center.