朗读者：蒋林豆
河南经贸职业学院 计算机应用技术
满怀希望就会所向披靡
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性别平等和环境可持续性似乎是无关的两个问题，但研究表明，它们实际上是密切相关的。妇女和其他少数群体不成比例地受到全球气候危机的影响，但她们同时也处于独特的地位，可以领导这场可持续发展斗争。在这篇文章中，作者提供了六种策略，帮助商业和政治领导人通过交错性可持续性的方法赋予女性权利以应对环境挑战。她们认为最重要的是为了应对气候变化（以及当今面临的无数其他可持续性挑战），领导人必须承认这些问题的复杂性和相互关联性，并努力制定综合解决方案，以改善所有这些问题。
As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, organizations around the world have begun investing in a wide array of environmental sustainability initiatives. Some of these efforts target technological solutions, while others prioritize behavioral or economic changes, but what the vast majority have in common is a single-minded focus on reducing carbon emissions. And to be sure, this is an important goal — but a growing body of research suggests that real progress on environmental sustainability requires solutions that also incorporate social sustainability, and in particular, gender equity.
What does gender have to do with environmental sustainability? These two issues may seem unrelated, but they are in fact closely intertwined. Indeed, a comprehensive report from United Nations (UN) Women found that women are disproportionately impacted by most if not all of the challenges highlighted in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For example, natural disasters (which have become more common due to the climate crisis) often disproportionately affect women, children, the poor, the elderly, and the disabled, whose perspectives often go unheard or ignored. Women and girls in many regions in the Global South are typically responsible for collecting water, which becomes a lot more taxing during droughts, and in Europe, women are more likely than men to live in flood zones, where the impact of climate change is felt most severely. Studies have also shown that gender-based violence, including physical, psychological, and reproductive violence against women, becomes more prevalent after natural disasters, with complex and far-reaching consequences on health and well-being.
来源：
Gloor, J. L., Mestre, E. B., Post, C., & Ruigrok, W. (2022). We can't fight climate change without fighting for gender equity. Harvard Business Review. Available at: https://hbr.org/2022/07/we-cant-fight-climate-change-without-fighting-for-gender-equity
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