Climate Change is not gender-neutral: realities on the ground

The vulnerability and capacity of individuals and communities to cope with or adapt to climatic changes is related to the access to and control of natural, social, physical, political and financial resources. [...] And the fact that the body carries the care of the reproduction, make women extra sensitive during and after pregnancies, especially for malaria. [...] The stronger the disaster, the larger this effect; and the bigger the gender inequality, the larger the gender- differentiated impact. [...] They are the activists and leaders in the combating of climatic problems, in disaster risk management and in recovery. [...] The article was published on the occasion of the Congress of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), during which Cristina Tirado of the University of California mentioned: ‘If people have to live in circumstances that can not be sustained, than they migrate’.