Independent Scholar, Honolulu, HI, USA.
Department of Psychology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Int J Psychol. 2024 Apr;59(2):257-266. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12942. Epub 2023 Sep 11.
Our world faces potentially catastrophic climate change that can damage human health in multiple ways. The impact of climate change is uneven, disproportionately affecting the lives and livelihoods of women and girls. This conceptual article compiles evidence for a model that argues that climate change has more detrimental consequences for women than men because of women's precarity (unequal power) and corporal (physical) vulnerability. Climate change challenges the human rights of women and girls, triggering displacement, interrupted education, food and water scarcity, economic instability, mental and physical health challenges, reproductive injustice, gender-based violence, exploitation and human trafficking. Women are effective and essential change agents; their empowerment can directly contravene or mitigate climate change and also break the links between climate change and its negative consequences for women and girls. Gender-sensitive responses to the effects of climate change are imperative. Women's empowerment will further human rights and achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
我们的世界正面临着可能造成灾难性影响的气候变化，这种变化会以多种方式损害人类健康。气候变化的影响并不均衡，它不成比例地影响着妇女和女童的生活和生计。这篇概念性文章汇集了一个模型的证据，该模型认为，由于妇女的脆弱性（权力不平等）和肉体（身体）脆弱性，气候变化对妇女的不利后果甚于对男子的不利后果。气候变化挑战了妇女和女童的人权，引发了流离失所、教育中断、粮食和水短缺、经济不稳定、身心健康挑战、生殖不公正、性别暴力、剥削和人口贩运。妇女是有效的和必不可少的变革推动者；赋予妇女权力可以直接对抗或减轻气候变化，也可以打破气候变化及其对妇女和女童的负面影响之间的联系。对气候变化影响采取性别敏感的应对措施至关重要。赋予妇女权力将进一步促进人权和实现联合国可持续发展目标。
