Gender and Climate Justice by COPGendered

Combining an intersectional approach with a gender lens is essential, as each man or woman is uniquely influenced by a set of privileges and disadvantages pertaining to this individual only. An older woman being racialized in a big town might have little in common with a young white woman in a village. An intersectional approach helps people to steer clear of oversimplified classifications of men and women. Intersectionality, a cornerstone concept within both feminist and environmental spheres, was first introduced by American scholar, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989. This concept recognises individuals as multifaceted beings with diverse experiences, resisting the tendency to categorise them in narrow terms. 

Fundamentally, intersectionality acknowledges the impossibility of confining individuals to singular categories, emphasising the need to comprehend human complexity beyond a single form of identity, such as gender. Instead, it underscores the interplay of various types of identity, including ethnicity/racialization, gender, class, age, (dis)ability, and geographic location, which are intertwined with societal power structures and inequalities.