Why Gender Matters for Effective Adaptation to Climate Change

• This video explores connections between gender inequality, the impacts of climate change, and potential adaptations. 
• A gender-responsive approach to adaptation is outlined and highlights the need to be inclusive of all marginalized individuals.
  

Positives

• Upbeat music and animations are used to keep viewers engaged.
• The video highlights the importance of diverse voices in solving the climate crisis.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should have a basic understanding of climate change and its impacts on various regions of the world.
• Students should also be familiar with issues of injustice and specifically the way women are marginalized in society.
  

Differentiation

• Students could list ways their community is impacted by climate change, identify who might be disproportionately impacted, and brainstorm potential adaptations that would benefit the most vulnerable.
• The video only briefly mentions other forms of discrimination that intersect with climate change. Students could discuss how their learnings from the video would apply to other marginalized groups based on race, socioeconomic status, disability, etc.
• This resource can be connected to social-emotional learning by further exploring identity, intersectionality, discrimination, and justice as it relates to climate change.
• These lessons How Climate Change Affects People Differently and Understand How Climate Change Affects Others could be used to help students further draw connections between marginalized communities and the climate crisis.
• Other resources about gender discrimination and climate change include this reading comprehension resource and this video.