The Climate crisis disproportionately affects fragile and conflict-affected states. While those states are contributing the least to global emissions – they face the starkest effects of climate change which adds stress on livelihood of their populations. Weak governance and conflict reduce the capability of those states to adapt to this crisis.

Within these countries, men and women, and boys and girls, experience climate change, peace and security in different ways. Deeply rooted gender norms, expectations and roles lead to different impacts and shape differential coping and adaptation mechanisms for different genders, generations, ethnicities, religions, abilities or sexual orientations. Ignoring these dynamics risks creating new vulnerabilities, reinforcing existing inequalities, and more importantly – missing valid ideas on how to tackle the climate crisis.

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This description was excerpted from londonclimateactionweek.org.