Championing Gender Equality in Climate Action: Climate, Gender and Displacement

Displacement amplifies existing inequalities, including gender inequality. With the climate crisis acting as an additional vulnerability multiplier, more and more people are likely to be on the move in the future.

While women face heightened risk and vulnerability in circumstances of displacement, they are also important agents of change working towards a more sustainable, peaceful and world. Our policies have to reflect that, recognising women as the leaders and experts they are.

Learn more about this topic from Ambassador Katharina Stasch, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva, International Gender Champion and and Co-Chair of the IGC's Climate-Gender Impact Group in Geneva.

This video is part of the International Gender Champions video series: Championing gender equality in climate action, made possible through the support of the United States Permanent Mission to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva.