Gender & Climate

What role does water play in the Gender-Climate-Nexus, how are people affected differently and why is a good interaction between politics and business essential? For one whole month we’ll be answering these questions and focussing exclusively on the Gender-Climate-Water-connection.

My first guest in this month is Hector Alexander Serrano from Mexico. Hector is a Senior Water Resource Management Specialist at The World Bank and Co-leading the World Bank’s Latin American initiatives on Water Security and Waste to Resource. He is leader and collaborator in numerous water initiatives in Latin America and has over 10 years experience. We talk about how his childhood led him to where he is today, why water matters and about water initiatives the World Bank is executing.

Check out the Water Matters report about Resilient, Inclusive and Green Growth through Water Security in Latin America published by the World Bank here: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/37214 .

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Welcome back everyone after a longer summer break – it’s so great to have you back listening! Prepare yourself for a colourful outline of different episodes. To start in a creative way right away I want to present you todays guest: Lydia Wanjiku Kibandi from Kenya. Lydia is the CEO at Lensationala non-profit social enterprise working to elevate the agencies and voices of women from underrepresented groups and communities through visual storytelling.

We talk about what climate change does look like from the perspective of women who are at the forefront, what it means to keep cattle in Kenya and why persistence pays off.

Check out the fabulous pictures taken by Lensationals’ women here: https://photos.lensational.org/index .

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The world is constructed for men – we need to change that. One person changing it is Sofia Castelo: Sofia is the Director for Climate & Environmental Resilience at Think City, having a vast background in landscape architecture. She is also a Co-founder of the NGO “mulheres na arquitetura” aiming to empower women in the public space and the architecture profession. In this episode we discuss what's the climate catastrophe like in Malaysia, how she conducted the nature-based climate adaptation programme for the urban areas of Penang Island and why women and girls need separate attention when designing public spaces.

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In this episode I speak to Hanan Farhat. Hanan is the Founder and Director of the 1st National Corrosion Centre in Qatar, she has a vast background in engineering and supports women in engineering. In this episode we discuss the situation concerning Climate Change and Gender Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa, why public transport is no good idea in Qatar, how women engineers act differently in order to combat the climate catastrophe and what they bring to the table to do so.

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The potential for a gender just world is really there, we "only" need to address the (sort of) root causes of the injustices. In this episode I am talking to Annick Gillard-Bailetti who explains how the root causes can be addressed and thus how a climate & gender just world could be created. Annick is a Consultant in Climate Change and Development and has worked for several years in different NGOs like CARE International, save the children or PLAN international. add M.Sc. We discuss the effects of restorative aquaculture, why companies should hire more women and how people living along the the kenyan coastal areas are battling against the climate catastrophe.

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In this episode I speak to Marta Santiváñez. Marta is a journalist and the Co-founder of the jfa human rights journal. In this episode we discuss the study her team conducted in Cuba, why the need for action creates strength, why only creativity can be the solution in the fight against the climate crisis and how Cuban women know how to use that in their daily lives.

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Aicha Seifelislam-Schreiber from Sudan and Lisa Wernz from Germany are our guests in this episode.

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In this episode I'm talking to Vrinda Kabra from India. She's the Co-founder & Business Designer of precycle and aiming to bring a systemic change in the global plastic system. We discuss what pulltion has to do with the nexus of Gender & Climate Change, why formal work is important and how the solution to all these problems could look like. Stay tuned!

Vrinda is currently running a crowdfunding campaign with her company "precycle". Go here to support them: https://www.startnext.com/en/precycle-for-plastic-action/

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Today we celebrate women's achievement, raise awareness against bias and take action for equality! In this powerful episode I talk to three women with different backgrounds and professions, being united by the aim of a climate and gender just world. Join Charlotte Hopmans, Léna Plaud and Cécile Deprez discussing the interconnectedness of Gender & Climate Change, calling for more women in leadership and decision making positions and spreading the vision of an equal representation of all.

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Earthquakes, typhoons, heat and droughts and many other extreme situations and natural disasters come to mind when we think of the effects of climate change. In this episode, Annika talks to Kathlyn Kissy Sumaylo-Pearlman from the Phillipines. Kissy is an international resilience specialist with at least 15 years of experience in disaster risk reduction and has worked with several UN and national government institutions in South and Southeast Asia. She explains (again) why gender should be more than just a box to tick and gives insights into the Philippine way of disaster risk management (DRM).

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