My cookie preferencesAdvancing policy avenues for addressing vulnerabilities by gender in climate change migration and displacement
Rosignoli F
Over the last decade, studies have provided sufficient evidence that climate change impacts disproportionately affect women and children. As reported in the EU Gender Action Plan III (2020), women account for 80 per cent of people displaced in the context of climate change, while women and children are up to 14 times more likely to be killed than men by climate-fuelled disasters. Notwithstanding the magnitude of this phenomenon and the gender injustice issues it raises, no legally binding treaty or specific migration policies provide for legal status and tailored policies at the EU level. The mere focus on preventing irregular migration adopted in the 2020 New Pact on Migration and Asylum does not seem sufficient to govern a long-term, structural phenomenon. This chapter aims to fill this policy gap by providing a toolkit to policymakers for assessing and coping with vulnerabilities and specific needs by gender while formulating tailored gender-sensitive policies.
DOI: 10.4337/9781035329939.00014