• Ground policy and programming on WPS and • Leverage systematized information and climate action in evidence-based research metrics—such as the WPS Index, other indices conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate of gender equality, and climate resilience indices Change (IPCC) and other relevant organizations. [...] The girls.1 These actors are beginning to focus on the vital need impacts of climate change on fragile contexts can deepen to meaningfully incorporate women’s voices and active preexisting gender inequalities, increase the vulnerability participation in climate action2 and peace negotiations.3 of women and girls, and indirectly amplify the risks of Gender is also increasingly recognized as an inte. [...] To explore the link between women’s status and climate change preparedness, we compared the WPS Index against Our results reveal strong and significant correlations three well-known climate indices: the Notre Dame Global between the WPS Index and all three climate indices, Adaptation Initiative Index, the State Resilience Index, showing that countries where women are doing well tend and the Enviro. [...] to be better prepared to absorb the impacts of climate change, adapt to sudden crises, and protect environmental • The ND-GAIN Index summarizes a country’s health and ecosystem vitality (table 1 and figure 4).38 vulnerability to climate change and other global The correlation is strongest between the WPS Index and challenges in combination with its readiness to the ND-GAIN Index, followed closely. [...] Specifically, policymakers working on issues of climate and/or security must: • Leverage systematized information and metrics—such as the WPS Index, other indices The Way Forward: of gender equality, the ND-GAIN Index of climate adaptation, the State Resilience Index, and the Conclusions and Environmental Performance Index—to promote data-informed work across the gender-climate- Recommendations se.
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