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Women and girls in the Arab region should be included more prominently in climate change policymaking, but also more broadly given the interlinkages between climate and other policy areas.
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Women’s leadership and full participation in climate action are essential to design solutions and responses to climate emergencies so as to address their differentiated needs in the Arab region.
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Women’s full contribution to national adaptation plans (NAPs) for climate change provides an opportunity to ensure the full participation of all members of society in climate adaptation initiatives.
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Mainstreaming climate concerns into national gender equality frameworks, action plans and strategies is an opportunity for the Arab region to comprehensively approach gender discrimination in climate change.
As extreme weather events increase in severity and frequency worldwide, climate change is a daily occurrence with real life consequences. For women in the Arab region, water scarcity, food insecurity and conflict, coupled with environmental degradation, resource scarcity and forced migration, further complicate the struggle to survive and compound the risk for increased inequality and violence. However, while women in the region play an important role in climate change responses and increasing climate resilience, their participation remains underrepresented in global and regional climate negotiations, and their solutions are drastically under-resourced. There are two ways to remedy this is at the policy level: to mainstream gender-based concerns through NAPs on climate change, and to mainstream climate concerns within gender equality frameworks.