{"id":2756,"date":"2018-02-12T10:32:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T10:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2018-02-12T10:32:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T10:32:06","slug":"uae-ministry-of-climate-change-and-environment-convenes-session-on-women-and-youth-at-world-government-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/uae-ministry-of-climate-change-and-environment-convenes-session-on-women-and-youth-at-world-government-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Ministry Of Climate Change And Environment Convenes Session On Women And Youth At World Government Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment hosted a session today entitled &#8220;Women and Youth: The Catalyst to Solve Global Challenges&#8221;, to explore how women and youth can be leveraged as powerful agents of change. The session was part of the &#8216;Climate Change Forum \u2013 Climate Action Now&#8217; at the\u00a0World Government Summit (WGS) 2018 in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>In this discussion, Forest Whitaker, Founder and CEO of Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative (WPDI) and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace, joined\u00a0Her Excellency Hessa bint Essa Buhumaid, UAE Minister of Community Development, to address the disproportionate impact of climate change on women and youth. Adnan Amin, Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), moderated a session focusing on ways to mitigate climate change impacts and capitalize on solutions that women and youth could offer for the humanitarian-climate nexus.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the dialogue, Amin stated: &#8220;We are going to have more \u2013 not fewer \u2013 climate-linked disasters, and they are going to be more dramatic in their scale. We will, therefore, see a stark increase in the number of women and children whose lives will be lost or stunted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Women and youth excessively bear the impact of environmental, economic and social shocks, and are 14 times more likely than men to die during a disaster. While women and youth are often victims, evidence from humanitarian situations collated by agencies and NGO boards unmistakably indicate that women and youth know their own needs, and typically have the best ideas on how they should be met.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2757 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1575\" height=\"916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fd.jpg 1575w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fd-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fd-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fd-1024x596.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1575px) 100vw, 1575px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment hosted a session today entitled &#8220;Women and Youth: The Catalyst to Solve Global Challenges&#8221;, to explore how women and youth can be leveraged as powerful agents of change. 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