Gender equality goals under threat in climate crisis-hit countries, says UN

Disasters such as floods and cyclones disproportionately affect women by disrupting sexual and reproductive health services. Photograph: Fareed Khan/AP

The climate crisis threatens the chances of gender equality being achieved in the countries most vulnerable to global heating, the UN has said.

As Cop28 opens in Dubai, UNFPA, the UN’s reproductive and maternal health agency, released data showing that the 14 countries most at risk from the effects of the climate crisis are also those where women and girls are more likely to die in childbirth, marry early, experience gender-based violence or be displaced by disaster.