世界上的青年应如何应对气候变化（每日外刊0806-不争取性别平等）

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气候变化、环境恶化和灾害扩大了既有性别不平等，加大了妇女获得体面工作的难度，增加了她们的安全和健康风险。因缺少获得土地、森林、水源、海洋资源的平等机会，加之在非正规经济部门就业人数多，妇女往往处于缺乏劳动权利和社会保护的脆弱地位。数据显示，在气候灾难面前，妇女和儿童的死亡人数，可达到男性的14倍。其次，人类的生存与发展离不开无酬照料、家务劳动和社区工作，而妇女从事无酬照料、家务劳动和社区工作的时间远远多于男性。同时，针对妇女和女童的暴力行为普遍存在且缺乏诉诸法律的机会，这种状况在气候、环境危机和灾难中进一步恶化。

世界上的青年应如何应对气候变化（每日外刊0806-不争取性别平等）(1)

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We Can't Fight Climate Change Without Fighting for Gender Equity

不争取性别平等，就无法应对气候变化

As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, organizations around the world have begun investing in a wide array of environmental sustainability initiatives. Some of these efforts target technological solutions, while others prioritize behavioral or economic changes, but what the vast majority have in common is a single-minded focus on reducing carbon emissions. And to be sure, this is an important goal — but a growing body of research suggests that real progress on environmental sustainability requires solutions that also incorporate social sustainability, and in particular, gender equity.

随着气候危机变得越来越紧迫，世界各地的相关组织开始采取大量环境可持续性的措施。其中一些尝试针对的是使用技术解决方案，而另一些则优先考虑行为或经济方面的改变，但绝大多数措施的共同点是专注于减少碳排放。的确，这是一个重要的目标，但越来越多的研究表明，在环境可持续性方面取得真正的进展，需要同时考虑社会可持续性，特别是解决性别平等的方案。

What does gender have to do with environmental sustainability? These two issues may seem unrelated, but they are in fact closely intertwined. Indeed, a comprehensive report from United Nations (UN) Women found that women are disproportionately impacted by most if not all of the challenges highlighted in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For example, natural disasters (which have become more common due to the climate crisis) often disproportionately affect women, children, the poor, the elderly, and the disabled, whose perspectives often go unheard or ignored.

性别与环境可持续性有什么关系？这两个问题看似没有联系，但实际上关联紧密。事实上，根据联合国妇女署(UN Women)的一份全面报告发现，联合国可持续发展目标(SDGs)中指出的大部分挑战(如果不是全部的话)对女性的影响格外严重。例如，自然灾害(由于气候危机而变得更加普遍)往往不同程度地影响着女性、儿童、穷人、老年人和残疾人，这些群体的观点往往没人理睬或被忽视。

Women and girls in many regions in the Global South are typically responsible for collecting water, which becomes a lot more taxing during droughts, and in Europe, women are more likely than men to live in flood zones, where the impact of climate change is felt most severely. Studies have also shown that gender-based violence, including physical, psychological, and reproductive violence against women, becomes more prevalent after natural disasters, with complex and far-reaching consequences on health and well-being.

在南半球很多地区，妇女和女孩们通常要负责寻找水源，干旱期间打水的任务变得更加繁重。在欧洲，女性比男性更有可能生活在最受气候变化影响的洪涝地区。研究还表明，性别暴力，包括对女性的身体、心理和生育方面的暴力，这类现象在自然灾害过后变得更为普遍，给女性的健康和福祉带来复杂深远的影响。

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