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Gender References & Allusions in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Reports

Lead Author: Lorena Aguilar
2024  

In May of 2023, the Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls produced the first analysis of Gender Consideration in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). In response to the study, the Kaschak Institute received several requests to extend the research to all the documents associated with the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). 

This document includes the analysis of the three working groups’ Summaries for Policymakers (SPM) , the full reports of Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis (August 2021), Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (February 2022), and Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change (April 2022) as well as the Synthesis Report: Contribution of Working Groups I, II, and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2023). 

This paper includes tables containing verbatim references to the fifteen descriptors used for the documents' appraisal. 

The climate–care nexus: Addressing the linkages between climate change and women’s and girls’ unpaid care, domestic, and communal work

The transformation of societies and economies towards paradigms centred on interdependence, care, and sustainability is urgently needed. In this context, this working paper sheds light on emerging efforts to address women’s and girls’ unpaid care, domestic, and communal work in a dramatically changing climate.

The paper discusses the ways in which climate change and environmental degradation disrupt the care economy and increase and intensify women’s and girls’ unpaid care, domestic, and communal work. The paper analyses emerging national efforts to address unpaid care and domestic work through multilateral environmental agreements and valuing paid and unpaid care work in gender-responsive just transitions.

The paper concludes with recommendations for governments, international organizations, UN agencies, academia, and civil society at a key moment for rethinking the dominant development model based on the extraction and exploitation of natural resources, fossil fuels, and human lives, and for making caring for people and the planet a central concern.

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Climate Change CV

 The Kaschak Institute (KI) has recently conducted a study to identify Binghamton University's current and past efforts in climate change research over the past 20 years. In 2023, the Institute seeks to bring together the actors and departments identified in this research to define joint actions in relation to climate change and social justice, both nationally and internationally.  Access the CV here