The Unjust Climate report highlights the reality that women head of rural households in low- and middle-income countries suffer significantly greater economic losses than men each year.
On average, female-headed households lose 8% more income due to heat stress and 3% more due to flooding than male-headed households.
This equates to a significant reduction in per capita income of $83 due to heat stress and $35 due to flooding, totaling $37 billion and $16 billion, respectively, across the poorest countries.
Even if average temperatures rose by just 1 degree, these women would face a staggering 34% reduction in their total income compared to men. This study suggests that if this issue is not addressed, climate change will significantly widen these differences in the coming years.
powerful impact
“Social differences based on location, wealth, gender and age have a major but poorly understood impact on rural people's vulnerability to the impacts of the climate crisis,” said FAO Director-General QU Dongyu. he said.
“These findings highlight the urgent need to devote significantly more financial resources and policy attention to issues of inclusivity and resilience in global and national climate change responses.”
If you want to know more about this story, go here to read our interview with Lauren Phillips, Deputy Director of FAO's Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division.
Approximately 1.3 million children in Yemen will be protected from polio
A massive polio vaccination campaign in Yemen has reached more than 1.29 million children under the age of five in just four days, the United Nations announced on Tuesday.
The joint campaign involving Yemen's Ministry of Public Health and Population, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) reached an astonishing 89-100 percent of the children targeted.
“This is an important step in protecting children from deadly childhood diseases,” said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF Representative in Yemen.
“Polio cases remain an imminent threat with confirmed cases among children in Yemen. This is an ongoing risk to the lives of all unvaccinated children. Health authorities and donations All children must continue to work together to ensure universal immunization for all children across Yemen.”
WHO Representative Arturo Pesigan said the immunization drive was a major achievement in improving the health and well-being of Yemen's children.
investment in the future
“Poliovirus and other childhood diseases can cause permanent disability and, in many cases, death. But small doses of vaccine can provide the protection needed,” he said.
“There is no reason for children to die from vaccine-preventable diseases. Children are the future and every investment in their health is an investment in the development of the country.”
This campaign was supported by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Yemen has joined more than 35 countries in using the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2), which has received WHO pre-approval.
“There is no sustainable development without peace” Deputy Secretary of the United Nations
There can be no sustainable development in line with the 2030 global goals without peace, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General told a high-level meeting of Arab countries in the Lebanese capital on Tuesday.
The world faces complex challenges, especially in the Middle East, which is roiled by conflict and instability, Amina Mohammed said at the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development.
“Persistent and recurrent conflict and fragility directly affects 182 million people in nine countries in the region and exacerbates the refugee crisis,” she said.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed speaks at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Arab Forum for Sustainable Development in Beirut, Lebanon.
The war in Gaza and other crises “remind us that there can be no sustainable development without peace. is still a very long way off,” she added.
More than halfway to the 2030 Agenda deadline, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are far off track globally and in the Arab region.
He said extreme poverty in the region has more than doubled since 2015 and now stands at over 20%, with unemployment reaching 10.7%.
Widening inequality
The Arab region also suffers from a growing lack of financing, while droughts, floods, sandstorms and other climate and environmental challenges hinder economic and social development, and carbon emissions have fallen by 2020 between 2000 and 2020. 68%, twice as fast as the rest of the world. Global trends.
But against this backdrop, “there are signs of hope,” she said, including the promise of $500 billion a year made at last September's SDG Summit and the commitment to make financial structures more just and resilient. He referred to reforming the global financial structure to make it more responsive, responsive and accessible to all. .
“We need to step up action, focusing on transformative policies and investments,” he told delegates, noting that many Arab countries are already committed to clean energy, digitization of food systems, social protection reform and economic diversification. He added that the company is accelerating efforts to bring about important changes that will lead to significant change.