Gender

A landmark global economic analysis, paired with a state-of-the-art heat solution cost-benefit calculator covering 11,408 cities worldwide, shows that investing in heat action saves billions in losses.

HERA and its partners launched HERA Materna, the world’s first ever heat-pregnancy insurance program. Extreme heat is threatening pregnant women on the frontlines of the climate crisis, and until now no financial protection has existed to shield them.

This brief reviews the empirical evidence on the barriers women face in adapting to climate change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A

This publication explores how climate mobility programmes can move beyond gender-responsive approaches towards more gender-transformative change.

This review examines how extreme heat affects women’s well-being and highlights everyday adaptation practices across Africa, Asia and Oceania.

This research review, which looks at examples across Oceania, Africa and Asia finds that the people who are forced to adapt to the greatest extent are the ones that climate policies ignore the most.

Women experience heat differently due to physiological, occupational, and socio-economic factors; they cannot be considered an “invisible category” within climate governance

This study investigates whether empowering women can reduce climate vulnerability, and enhance nations’ resilience, readiness and adaptability to climate change.