The Climate-Care Nexus: Addressing the Linkages Between Climate Change and Women’s and Girls’ Unpaid Care, Domestic and Communal Work

  • Lorena Aguilar, Seemin Qayum, and Carla Kraft

Summary

The paper analyses nascent national efforts to address unpaid care and domestic work through multilateral environmental agreements and valuing paid and unpaid care work in gender-responsive just transitions. The paper concludes with recommendations for governments, international organizations, UN agencies, academia and civil society at a key moment for rethinking the dominant development model based on the extraction and exploitation of natural resources, fossil fuels and human lives, and for making caring for people and the planet a central concern.

Citation

Aguilar, Lorena, Seemin Qayum, and Carla Kraft. The Climate-Care Nexus: Addressing the Linkages Between Climate Change and Women’s and Girls’ Unpaid Care, Domestic and Communal Work. New York: UN Women. November, 2023. https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2023-11/working-paper-the-climate-care-nexus-en.pdf

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