Climate Change

The ocean and coasts provide critical ecosystem services such as carbon storage, oxygen generation, food and income generation.

Ocean warming leads to deoxygenation – a reduction in the amount of oxygen dissolved in the ocean – and sea-level rise – resulting from the thermal expansion of sea water and continental ice melting. The rising temperatures, coupled with ocean acidification (the decrease in pH of the ocean due to its uptake of CO2), affect marine species and ecosystems and, consequently, the fundamental benefits humans derive from the ocean.

Climate change represents the most complex challenge of our time – it requires a concerted, proactive and holistic response. Gender inequality may dramatically limit the resilience and adaptive capacity of women, families and communities. It may also restrict options for climate change mitigation.

Women Deliver is thrilled to publish two new reports that explore the inextricable linkages between climate change, gender equality, and sexual and reproductive health and rights and propose recommendations for decision-makers.