Africa: Women Central to Adaptation, Mitigation

18 November 2009

Port Elizabeth — Poor women will bear the greatest 'climate burden', says the United Nations Population Fund in its 2009 State of the World Population report, released today.

The report emphasises that climate change is more than an issue of energy efficiency or industrial carbon emissions; it is also an issue of population dynamics, poverty and gender equity.

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