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Foundation: Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Women are the main users and producers of household energy, and as primary stewards of their land and traditions in many communities, they tend to have a stronger understanding of how their natural resources are affected by climate change, reports the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
As such, they are more likely to be energy-efficient and adopt environmentally friendly behaviors, the OECD has found.
But as primary stewards of their land and traditions in many communities, they tend to have a stronger understanding of how their natural resources are affected by climate change.
As a result, women and girls suffer some of the worst consequences of climate change.
When food is scarce, mothers and daughters often last.
When families are poor, daughters are married earlier.
And when clean energy is inaccessible, women and girls spend hours collecting wood for cooking, and suffer more health problems from smoke inhalation.
"The more climate change intensifies, the wider this gender gap grows," says UN Women's High-Level Champion for COP28, Razan Al Mubarak.
The lack of gender-disaggregated data is an economy-wide problem, she writes at Bloomberg.
"Women deal daily with products such as mobile phones, medicines, and car seat belts that were designed for men's bodies, and they live in a
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