Gender assumptions harm progress on climate adaption and resilience, new study finds
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Outdated assumptions around gender continue to hinder effective and fair policymaking and action for climate mitigation and adaptation, a new study published in Nature Climate Change has found.
Gender—alongside other identities like race, class and age—has a powerful influence on people’s experience of, and resilience to, climate change, said the lead author of the study Dr. Jacqueline Lau, a post-doctoral research fellow working with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University (Coral CoE at JCU) and WorldFish…Read the rest
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