World leaders and international civil society will gather in New York on 22-23 September 2024 for the UN Summit of the Future. The Summit is an event where world leaders meet and address current international issues and challenges to find consensus on how to create a better and safer present and future. This blog article takes issue with how the climate-gender-conflict nexus is (not) discussed in the lead-up to the summit. Reviewing the summit documents, I argue that the (draft) Pact for the Future treats gender justice, climate crisis, and conflict as separate silos of challenges, overlooking their interconnectedness. Instead, I emphasize the need for the Summit of the Future to take the climate-gender-conflict nexus seriously, recognizing the climate crisis as a risk multiplier that exacerbates gender inequalities and conflict dynamics.
Author: Paula Kowal
Paula Kowal studiert den Masterstudiengang „Internationale Entwicklung“ an der Universität Wien. Im Rahmen ihres Praktikums am PRIF unter der Betreuung von Sophia Birchinger arbeitet sie in den Projekten „Coercion in Peacebuilding“ und „Wahrnehmungen von Zwang: AU und ECOWAS Interventionen in Gambia und Guinea-Bissau“ im Programmbereich „Glokale Verflechtungen“ mit. // Paula Kowal is studying the master program “International Development” at the University of Vienna. As part of her internship at PRIF under the supervision of Sophia Birchinger, she is working on the projects “Coercion in Peacebuilding“ and “Perceptions of Coercion: AU and ECOWAS Interventions in The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau” at PRIF’s Research Department “Glocal Junctions”.
