28/04/2026
Our charter club member Paddi is currently attending the Women Deliver Conference in Narrm (Melbourne), on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation.
Paddi is alongside over 6,500 feminist leaders, activists, and changemakers they will be confronting an uncomfortable truth: climate change is not just an environmental crisis; it’s also a gendered catastrophe unfolding in slow motion.
The numbers are staggering. By 2050, UN Women estimates climate change will push 158 million more women and girls into poverty, 16 million more than men and boys. Another 236 million women will face food insecurity. These aren’t abstract projections; they are trajectories already visible in the communities most vulnerable to climate impacts.
The gendered dimensions of climate crisis reveal themselves in stark ways. In rural Pacific communities, women are primarily responsible for securing food, water, and fuel. When cyclones devastate fields and rising seas contaminate water sources, women must work harder, walk farther, and spend more time meeting their families’ basic needs. This is exhausting and dangerous. Climate-induced scarcity increases risks of gender-based violence, child marriage, and human trafficking. When resources become scarce and families are displaced, women and girls become even more vulnerable.
Yet despite bearing the heaviest impacts, women remain largely excluded from climate decision-making. Globally, women hold only around one quarter of parliamentary seats.
Paddi we are really looking forward to the information you bring back to share with us
