The Missing Link for Sustainable Futures: Gender-Responsive Climate Policies for Health Equity

The climate crisis: health and gender in focus

Achieving the global commitments to gender equity and women’s health will require smarter, climate-informed investments. Integrating gender and health—especially sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)—into climate adaptation policies is essential for addressing these challenges comprehensively, ensuring health equity and building resilient communities.

Since COP28, there is renewed commitment to address the public health impacts of climate change. The intersections of gender justice, health equity, and the climate crisis are critical yet often overlooked and under-funded aspects of sustainable development. Climate change poses significant challenges to global health, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and inequalities, particularly for women and girls and other marginalized communities.

Current investments at the nexus of gender-climate-health tend to be reactive, disjointed, and siloed. Coordinated, evidence-based investment and innovation is urgently needed to ensure that women and girls have continuous, uninterrupted access to the products and services they need in the face of compounding climate impacts and so they do not bear disproportionate health burdens due to climate change.

Join Panorama Global, Population Council, Global Climate and Health Alliance, and Global Health Council, for a thought-provoking dialogue among policymakers, funders, researchers, and civil society stakeholders on solutions to the climate crisis’ impact on gender equality and health equity goals. Attendees will:

• Engage with experts who are uncovering and collecting the latest evidence.
• Explore messaging for moving climate policies toward gender and health equity.
• Recommend actions toward COP29 and beyond.