Fighting climate change must be gender-sensitive and gender-responsive

BEING highly vulnerable to the impact of climate change, the Philippines is consistently cited as one of the top countries most affected in terms of casualties, displaced populations, affected livelihoods, and losses and damage to infrastructure and agriculture.

We often attribute climate change to tropical storms and typhoons that have caused billions of pesos in losses, affected millions of lives and set back economic growth. But it's not just about tropical cyclones: climate change is also about creeping, slow-onset events, such as rising sea levels and ocean temperatures, that occur without the drama of a calamity but are likely to cause more damage to coastal communities and the economy.