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SUMMARY:Women\, girls and biodiversity loss: an evidence and policy review
  - Francesca Booker (IIED)\, Hilary Alison (Green Goals) and Fleur Nash (U
 niversity of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20220503T120000Z
DTEND:20220503T130000Z
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CONTACT:Fleur Nash
DESCRIPTION:Across countries and cultures\, gendered differences and inequ
 alities mean that women and men often have contrasting roles and responsib
 ilities\, knowledge\, needs and priorities\, access\, user and ownership r
 ights\, decision-making power\, and risks and vulnerabilities. These shape
  the ways women and men use and conserve biodiversity\, and affect their s
 ensitivities to biodiversity loss. In particular\, gendered inequalities w
 ill mean that women and girls\, especially indigenous peoples and those li
 ving in poverty and rural communities are differentially and disproportion
 ately affected by biodiversity loss. This will detrimentally affect their 
 human rights\, including rights to life\, health\, food\, water and sanita
 tion\, culture and self-determination. This talk will share the findings f
 rom a rapid review conducted for the UK Government Department of Environme
 nt and Rural Affairs. The review aimed to understand the existing evidence
  about the impacts of biodiversity loss on women and girls\, and analysed 
 how existing international and national policy addresses the priorities of
  women and girls. The review revealed a lack of evidence on the impacts on
  women and girl's and how impacts were interconnected. When impacts were f
 ound they was usually little further evidence backing them up. The impacts
  that were found to included the loss of cultural and spiritual knowledge\
 , a decline in health\, reduced access to education\, a decline income\, h
 igher domestic work burden\, heighted exposure to gender based violence\, 
 and\, adverse impacts on subjective wellbeing. In the policy review we fou
 nd that international and national policy development were not sufficientl
 y addressing women and girls’ priorities due to a complex set of factors
  including lack of political will amongst multiple stakeholders and inadeq
 uate sex disaggregated data\, and implementation was being hampered by lac
 k of funding and knowledge. Further fundamental issues included patriarcha
 l social systems and persistent and pervasive norms about gender. We will 
 end the talk by sharing some recommendations on the steps that policy make
 rs and researchers can take to improve the evidence base and put in place 
 action to reduce inequalities.
LOCATION:Delivered online via Zoom
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