With the latest data, we now understand the critical relationship between gender, social equality, and climate change, and recognize that today, without gender equality, a sustainable future, an equal future, is unattainable.
Women and girls are hardest hit by the climate crisis, exacerbating existing gender inequalities and endangering women's lives and livelihoods. Worldwide, women are more dependent on natural resources. but have less access to these resources and often have disproportionate responsibility for providing food, water, and fuel.
As women and girls bear the burden of climate change, they are also important in guiding and driving change in climate adaptation, mitigation and solutions. Without half the world's population, solutions to a stable and equal tomorrow's world are unlikely to materialize. Last year, at the Generation Equality Forum, the Action Coalition for Feminist Action for Climate Justice was launched, bringing governments, private sector companies, the UN system and civil society together to make concrete commitments on climate justice. . On this International Women's Day, the Action Alliance helps drive global action and investment to fund gender-equitable climate solutions, increase women's leadership in the green economy, build women's and girls' resilience to climate and catastrophic impacts, and increase the use of gender and climate data.
Join us and celebrate all the ways women and girls are taking climate action at all levels and helping to raise their voices and support their work. At the same time, we see this progress being undermined by several consistent and aggravating generational crises.
Today we are witnessing a terrible situation in Ukraine that reminds us of the impact on women and girls, including hundreds of thousands of displaced people. of women and girls. The secretary is ready. war must end
Recently, we have seen the impact of COVID-19 on increasing inequality, causing poverty and violence against women and girls; and reversing their progress in employment, health, and education. The escalating crisis of climate change and environmental degradation unnecessarily undermines the rights and well-being of women and girls. They multiply uncertainty at all levels, from the individual and domestic to the national. Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, violent storms and floods deplete livelihoods, deplete resources and drive migration and displacement. The IPCC's latest major report on climate change, and our Secretary-General, have warned us that "nearly half of humanity lives in a danger zone, now", and that "many ecosystems are not coming back, now".
Climate change is a threat multiplier. but women and especially young women as a multiplier in solving the problem
Today we have the opportunity to put women and girls at the center of our planning and work, and to integrate a gender perspective into global and national laws and guidelines. We had the opportunity to rethink, reframe and reallocate resources. We have the opportunity to take advantage of the leadership of environmentalists and climate activists of women and girls to lead the protection of our planet. We need the knowledge, practice, and skills of indigenous women from generation to generation.
Success will require an unprecedented level of global cooperation and solidarity, but there is no alternative to success. We must defend our difficult achievements in the field of human and women's rights and resolutely leave no woman or girl behind.
We have a plan to follow. Includes full and equal participation and leadership of women in decision making; their access to green jobs and the blue economy; and their equal access to finance and resources.
We must ensure universal social protection and a care economy that protects us all. We must increase funding for the risk of climate, environmental and gender-related disasters; including recovering from COVID-19 and building resilience to future shocks. There is a solution. We intend to achieve this.
Let's make this International Women's Day a moment to remind ourselves that we have not only the answer to SDG 5, but through gender equality progress on all 17 sustainable development goals and programs for 2030. We look forward to working with you all on this.
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