Gender Equality
Enhancing Adaptation Action in Turkey Project is guided by cornerstone elements that are deeply ingrained in each component.
Gender Equality
Although it has greater adverse effects on the section whose life relies on natural resources and who is unable to respond to natural disasters, women are facing higher risks and greater burdens from the impacts of climate change in situations of poverty. The inequality is often accelerated by the unequal participation of women in decision-making processes and labor markets, and results in the exclusion of women from climate-related policy-making practices.
Women’s involvement in the response to climate change is crucial due to their local knowledge and capacity in leadership at sustainable practices and brings about a higher level of readiness for the impacts of climate change. Hence, gender equality is one of the core values with which climate change adaptation policies and projects should be incorporated.
Vulnerable Groups (Leave no one behind)
According to the IPCC (2014), vulnerability is the propensity or predisposition to be adversely affected, and people who are socially, economically, culturally, politically, institutionally, or otherwise marginalized are especially vulnerable to climate change. Due to their limited adaptive capacity to climate change, some sections of the human population are more exposed to the impact of climate change. Therefore, adaptation strategies and actions that include vulnerable human systems also strengthen the resilience for climate change.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Strategies for sustainable development and climate change adaptation have many common elements, so addressing them jointly can create synergies.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests. Thus, they are at the center of adaption actions and strategies.
“Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact”
SDG Target 13.1 | Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries |
Indicators | 13.1.2 Number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies 13.1.3 Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies |
SDG Target 13.2 | Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning |
Indicators | 13.2.1 Number of countries that have communicated the establishment or operationalization of an integrated policy/strategy/plan which increases their ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change, and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development in a manner that does not threaten food production (including a national adaptation plan, nationally determined contribution, national communication, biennial update report or other) |
SDG Target 13.3 | Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning |
Indicators | 13.3.2 Number of countries that have communicated the strengthening of institutional, systemic and individual capacity-building to implement adaptation, mitigation and technology transfer, and development actions |
The project will also make indirect contribution to several SDGs.
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