11. Juni 2025, 12:30 – 13:30
Online
This lecture seeks to translate learnings from feminist approaches to CRSV to address future risks for women and girls that will accelerate due to layers of climate-related insecurity, forced displacement and extreme weather events. It maps the bifurcation of climate-induced gendered violence issues under the UNFCC regime, the belated recognition under the UN human rights architecture, and the World Humanitarian Summit, and the influence of these siloed approaches on WPS National Action Plans. It assesses the linkages between climate risks, armed conflict and CRSV including the risk of a rapid acceleration in prevalence and a lack of domestic regulation. How can the global feminist movement focus on how to preserve human dignity and agency in some of the choices made to face climate impacts? As the recent UN Report on Gender, Climate and Security put it: “There is… an urgent need for better analysis and concrete, immediate actions to address the linkages between climate change and conflict from a gender perspective” (UNDP, 2020:3). This lecture presents how international regulatory frameworks will have to reform to adapt to climate risks and prevent CRSV.
