Gender and the Climate Crisis: Equitable Solutions for Climate Plans

These plans include a range of climate change mitigation (actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to slow the amount and speed of climate change) and adaptation (actions to try to adjust to current and future impacts of climate change to reduce vulnerability to harms) strategies for sectors such as energy, housing, and transportation. [...] PAGE | 10 The Role of Climate Plans Climate plans are detailed plans developed by cities, states, countries, universities and other institutions to outline steps that have been and will be taken to combat the effects of climate change. [...] Gender was chosen as a review term to identify how municipalities are responding to the disproportionate impacts of climate change on women and others on the gender spectrum, as well as how the strengths of women were noted in plans to help combat and mitigate the effects of climate change. [...] The City of Boston Climate Action Plan specifically mentioned expanding biking classes to women and gender-nonconforming individuals to improve and expand active transportation infrastructure, a great example of a climate solution that falls at the intersection of public health and public transportation.39 • Human Population/Population Growth/Growth: Fifteen of the 21 plans mentioned population gr. [...] • Public Health/Pollutants: Twenty of the 21 plans mentioned public health and the implications that climate change will have on the wellbeing of people and the planet.