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STORY: BAKU / COP29 GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE
TRT: 05:59
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 NOVEMBER 2024, BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
1. Pan left, exterior, COP29 entrance
2. Various shots, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jemimah Njuki, Chief, Economic Empowerment section, UN Women:
“We have an unparalleled opportunity for this COP to interrogate whether national accountability on commitments made to climate goals and targets – including climate finance – addresses the needs of women and girls in all their diversity, everywhere. And women, who are at the forefront of climate action, must be reflected in the BTRs that this COP has being discussing.”
4. Wide shot, conference room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jemimah Njuki, Chief, Economic Empowerment section, UN Women:
“We have made progress. Roughly four-in-five Parties to the UNFCCC mention gender equality in their Nationally Determined Contributions. It however remains unclear whether the associated policies, budgets and implementation are gender responsive. And the impacts on women’s and girls’ resilience are largely unknown. All the data we have and all the voices we hear tell us the same thing: that climate action must be feminist.”
6. Med shot, audience clapping
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jemimah Njuki, Chief, Economic Empowerment section, UN Women:
“We cannot achieve climate justice without gender justice. And for the climate actions that we are talking about, the climate policies that we are talking about, for them to really be effective, we have to promote gender equality, and we have to put issues of women's rights, women's empowerment and women's resilience at the heart of the decisions that we make at COP29.”
8. Wide shot, COP29 venue
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jemimah Njuki, Chief, Economic Empowerment section, UN Women:
“Women and girls are more likely to be in food insecure as a result of climate change. Our analysis already shows us that in the worst climate case scenario, that 236 million more women and girls are going to be food insecure, and 158 million more women and girls are going to go into poverty.”
10. Wide shot, COP29 venue
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jemimah Njuki, Chief, Economic Empowerment section, UN Women:
“We also see climate change really increasing the unpaid care work that is done by women and girls. For example, we know women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa are spending 200 million hours just fetching water. And to put this into context, this is equivalent to the whole workforce of the UK working hours per day.”
12. Med shot, COP29 venue
Jemimah Njuki, Chief of the Economic Empowerment section at UN Women, said that climate action must be feminist.
Addressing the High-Level Event on Gender in Transparency today (21 Nov) at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Njuki said,“We have an unparalleled opportunity for this COP to interrogate whether national accountability on commitments made to climate goals and targets – including climate finance – addresses the needs of women and girls in all their diversity, everywhere. And women, who are at the forefront of climate action, must be reflected in the BTRs that this COP has being discussing.”
She also said, “We have made progress. Roughly four-in-five Parties to the UNFCCC mention gender equality in their Nationally Determined Contributions. It however remains unclear whether the associated policies, budgets and implementation are gender responsive. And the impacts on women’s and girls’ resilience are largely unknown. All the data we have and all the voices we hear tell us the same thing: that climate action must be feminist.”
In an interview, she said, “We cannot achieve climate justice without gender justice. And for the climate actions that we are talking about, the climate policies that we are talking about, for them to really be effective, we have to promote gender equality, and we have to put issues of women's rights, women's empowerment and women's resilience at the heart of the decisions that we make at COP29.”
She continued, “Women and girls are more likely to be in food insecure as a result of climate change. Our analysis already shows us that in the worst climate case scenario, that 236 million more women and girls are going to be food insecure, and 158 million more women and girls are going to go into poverty.”
She added, “We also see climate change really increasing the unpaid care work that is done by women and girls. For example, we know women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa are spending 200 million hours just fetching water. And to put this into context, this is equivalent to the whole workforce of the UK working hours per day.”
