Zonta's Call to Action: Addressing Gender Inequality and Climate Crisis
Zonta emphasizes the urgent need to address gender inequality, as it is magnifying the impact of global heating and extreme weather events, leading to social disruption and increased carbon pollution. By taking climate action and closing gender gaps in leadership, education, economic opportunity, health, and safety, we can prevent further harm to women and girls, who are disproportionately affected by climate-related disasters.
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Why does Zonta Say NOW? Magnify gender inequality Cause global heating and extreme weather events Trigger social disruption Increased carbon pollution Stops the train by taking climate action and closing the gender gaps in leadership, education, economicopportunity, health, and safety. 1
Life for women and girls at the end of the train Aayan, 11, Mozambique Floods led to child marriage. Dabor, 9, Sudan Drought means no time for school. Judith, 42 and Clare 7, Canada Wildfire smoke triggered Clare s asthma. Judith may lose her casual job as she cares for Clare. Maria, 79, Australia Her heart condition is exacerbated in extreme heat and she cannot afford air conditioning. Freya, 51, Germany, in temporary shelter, 2 years after floods, no money for a new home. Ralia, 33, Nigeria Floods destroyed the market taking away her livelihood. How will she feed her family? 2 Personas
The Statistics 1 C rise in average temperature associated with 6% rise in violence against women 10% increase or decrease in average rainfall associated with 1% rise in child marriage when crops fail, families sell their daughters into marriage 32 million climate refugees in 2022, and this could rise to 1.2 billion by 2050 1 in 5 women who are refugees or who have been displaced because of a natural disaster has experienced sexual violence 3
