"Climate Change is not gender neutral," says Lučka Kajfež Bogataj

The leaders of the eight winning teams of the new TWAS-Elsevier Foundation Project Grants for Gender Equity and Climate Action gathered for a workshop in Trieste, Italy, on 18-19 April 2023. At the workshop, they strengthened their skills for applying scientific knowledge to real-life scenarios.
The awarded projects-led and conducted entirely by women researchers and technical experts-are made possible by a new grant programme emphasizing gender equity and climate action from TWAS, with key support from the Elsevier Foundation. The projects vary from seeking to establish sustainable home-gardens in Guatemala, to advancing climate literacy among women in Western Nepal and empowering women to improve local livelihoods through agroforestry in the Republic of Congo. The other projects will take place in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Uganda.
All eight projects aim to improve gender equity and address the climate-related needs of local communities in science- and technology-lagging countries (STLCs).
Among the speakers there was IPCC Nobel Peace Prize 2007 winner Prof. Lučka Kajfež Bogataj, (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) who on 18 April presented on ‘Remarks on adaptation and application of scientific knowledge in the context of the climate crisis’.