WHITE PAPER #WomenCOP24 4TH DECEMBER 2018 Women Health & Climate Let’s move forward after COP 24. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Top cover photo : ©Cyrielle Hariel Philippines, 2012. A child walks on downed trees through the debris and destruc- tion caused by Typhoon Bopha, in the town of Cateel in Davao Oriental Province in Davao Region in south-eastern Mindanao. Most of the houses and public infrastructure in Cateel have been destroyed. ©UNICEF/UNI133611/Maitem Bottom cover photo : SUMMARY WITNESSES P. 17 Editorial Louisa Renoux, Isabelle Blin 01. Sonia Bahri & Yannick Glemarec P. 18 © P. 2 UNICEF/UN055819/Sokhin 02. Nora Barsali United States of America, 2016. P. 18 Young Amaia, 11, on the coast of the Arctic Ocean. The melting sea 03. Annie Battle ice has shifted her community’s Testimonies given by P. 19 way of life, the Iñupiats, whose UNICEF ecosystem was largely based on Caroline Muhwezi the robustness of the ice. P. 4 P. 11 04. Sandy Beky P. 20 Testimonies given 05. 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Alain Houpert 39. Michèle Sabban They also support us P. 4 4 P. 56 P. 65 LOUISA RENOUX, ISABELLE BLIN AND YANNICK GLEMAREC http://www.climat-sante.org EDITORIAL ince 2015, We have continued to raise as much Last March 2018, we organized 3 parallel events around awareness as possible about the impact of the white paper at the CSW62 New York as it covers climate change and the serious repercussions the major topic : empowerment of the women in rural it has on women and girls in particular. areas. Our testimonies resounded with the representa- S tives of the present various international organizations. As a matter of fact, women are on the front line when it comes to the consequence of climate change. They The interdependence between the right of the women account for 70 % of the population surviving on less and the sustainable development, the circularity of than 1$ a day. In developing countries, women produce the objectives of sustainable development and the 80 % of agricultural output, spend 3 times more time solutions which we had listed with our witnesses collecting water than men, but own only 2 % of the and our partner Unicef France made us understand land and collect 10 % of the wages. that it was essential to move closer to entrepreneurs integrating these sustainable development goals : the They are 14 times more likely to lose their life during entrepreneurs of tomorrow. a natural catastrophe. Within the family unit, women play an essential tole when it comes to education Of this will was born a new partnership with the and prevention. BPI which allowed us to meet these entrepreneurs. We also discovered some of them among the young Therefore, for the third consecutive year, we are proud U-reporters of Unicef France. to present our latest edition of our White paper with new testimonies, in particular the young U-Reporters We hope to find effective and global solutions thanks of Unicef who enrich every year our white paper to these entrepreneurs because we are convinced of with their successful experiences worldwide and the virtue of the models which integrate sustainable new partners. development goals. Isabelle BLIN, UN Women France Louisa RENOUX, Parité Assurance, administrator, CNFF and Digital Ladies Digital Ladies & Allies and Assemblée & Allies member, Past-Présidente of des Femmes de Paris administrator, SupplémentdElles, lawyer specialized Insurance expert and Consulting in tax law then program manager in a Partner. insurance group. @louisarenoux @isabelle_blin CSW62 (Commission on the Status of Women) - New York - March 2018 2 Entrepreneurs committed towards sustainable development Last March 2018 during the CSW62 in New York, we were struck by Yannick Glemarec, then UN Women Executive director : “Gender inequalities show themselves in any aspects of the 2030 Program for the Sustainable development and its 17 sustainable development goals (SDG). A girl been born in a poor household (SDG 1) is subjected to a strong risk to go hungry agricultural workforce in certain countries, women (SDG 2), to abandon the school prematurely have an access much lesser than the men in lands, (SDG 4), to be forced to get married earlier and in financing, in information, in technologies and to know the violence (SDG 5), to be lacking ac- in markets. An equal access to these properties of cess to a source of drinking water (SDG 6) and of production could increase the production of the clean energy (SDG 7), to be disproportionately farmers from 20 to 30 % in the Sahelian zone. It affected by the climatic disorders (SDG 13) and would allow to progress regarding : struggle against the degradation of the ecosystems (SDG 14 and poverty (SDG 1), food safety (SDG 2), health (SDG 15) with all the consequences which it involves 3) and education (SDG 4) because women reinvest for the health (SDG 3) and her safety (SDG 16). a more important part of their income in these On the contrary, fulfilling women’s right is also a domains, economic empowerment of the women solution to the big challenges of the sustainable (SDG 5) or still of fight against the climatic disor- development. Let us take the example of the agricul- ders because a reassured access to the land is a ture. Although representing more than 70 % of the precondition to encourage the investments required for a climate-resilient agriculture. Multipartner coalitions will be necessary to integrate Gender as a dimensioninto the new generation of multisectorial strategies for the Yannick GLEMAREC, UN Assistant secretary and deputy sustainable development (2030 plans etc.) and executive director. realize these synergies.” @yannickunwomen 3 UNICEF Kiribati, 2016. Taronga, 16, holds her two-year-old sister Teaborenga while standing in a flooded area in the village of Eita, South Tarawa, Kiribati, Thursday 28 January 2016. Eita is one of many localities on Tarawa atoll that regularly floods at high tide. © UNICEF/UN056626/Sokhin 4 PREFACE BY JEAN-MARIE DRU UNICEF Children, the first victims of climate change Kiribati, 2014. On 5 November 2014, a boy walks from school to his house in Aberao village in South Tarawa, Kiribati. Kiribati is one of the countries most affected by sea level rise. ©UNICEF/UN055820/Sokhin Today’s children are the least responsible their development, and which also harms the growth of the for climate change, yet it is them and their fetus in pregnant women. future children who will suffer its full Climate change worsens the situation of the most disadvan- taged and excluded children. A poor child or a child that has no consequences. access to drinking water will see its situation further weakened if hit by a flood or a cyclone.