Temmerman Marleen, Peeters Emilie, Delacroix Celine, Arunda Malachi, Khalid Sara, Hanson Claudia, Ojong Samuel Akombeng
Centre of Excellence for Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.
International Centre for Reproductive Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Front Glob Womens Health. 2025 Jun 26;6:1594066. doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2025.1594066. eCollection 2025.
The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) established sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as foundational to sustainable development. Thirty years later, advancing women's reproductive rights (WRR), encompassing agency, decision-making autonomy, and universal access to family planning-remains critical not only for health and gender equity but also for mitigating environmental degradation. By reducing unintended pregnancies and empowering women to align childbearing with personal and ecological capacity, WRR alleviates ecological stressors such as deforestation while enhancing health resilience in climate-vulnerable communities. Yet, despite well-documented linkages between population dynamics and environmental change, contemporary climate policies and funding mechanisms persistently exclude WRR. This oversight undermines the potential of reproductive justice to enhance climate resilience. Additionally, claims that integrating WRR into climate agendas covertly promotes population control or represses women in low- and middle-income countries are fundamentally misleading. Crucially, research is needed to quantify the specific environmental impacts of WRR, underscoring the urgent need for robust global models to predict and validate these co-benefits. Strengthening this evidence base is imperative to inform policies that integrate WRR indicators into climate financing frameworks, ensuring gender-responsive programming. Bridging this gap requires interdisciplinary collaboration to develop metrics that capture WRR's role in reducing resource consumption and enhancing adaptive capacity. Embedding WRR within climate agendas would harmonize reproductive justice with environmental action, unlocking synergies between gender equity, health resilience, and sustainability. Fulfilling the ICPD's vision demands centering WRR in global climate strategies, thereby advancing a just and livable future for all.
1994年国际人口与发展会议（ICPD）将性与生殖健康及权利（SRHR）确立为可持续发展的基础。三十年后，推进妇女的生殖权利（WRR），包括自主决定权、决策自主权以及普遍获得计划生育服务，不仅对健康和性别平等至关重要，而且对于缓解环境退化也至关重要。通过减少意外怀孕并赋予妇女权力，使其生育与个人和生态能力相匹配，WRR减轻了森林砍伐等生态压力源，并增强了气候脆弱社区的健康恢复力。然而，尽管人口动态与环境变化之间的联系已有充分记录，但当代气候政策和资金机制却一直将WRR排除在外。这种忽视削弱了生殖正义增强气候恢复力的潜力。此外，声称将WRR纳入气候议程会暗中促进人口控制或压制低收入和中等收入国家的妇女，这种说法从根本上具有误导性。至关重要的是，需要开展研究来量化WRR对环境的具体影响，这凸显了迫切需要强大的全球模型来预测和验证这些协同效益。加强这一证据基础对于制定将WRR指标纳入气候融资框架的政策至关重要，以确保制定对性别问题有敏感认识的方案。弥合这一差距需要跨学科合作来制定衡量标准，以体现WRR在减少资源消耗和增强适应能力方面的作用。将WRR纳入气候议程将使生殖正义与环境行动相协调，释放性别平等、健康恢复力和可持续性之间的协同效应。实现ICPD的愿景需要将WRR置于全球气候战略的核心位置，从而为所有人推进一个公正且宜居的未来。
