Generation 2030: Powering Climate Resilience Through Inclusive Education, Gender Equality | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD

A climate-smart and gender-responsive education system advances equitable, quality education and plays a crucial role in building climate resilience for vulnerable populations. Promoting girls’ education is a sustainable pathway to enhance global resilience to climate change. Synergies between efforts to achieve the Global Goals on education, gender equality, and climate change play an active role in shaping a resilient and sustainable future for all. By Carsyn Baxter, Lydia Kiros, and Mariana Felix Angioletti The effects of climate change hinder access to education for millions with extreme weather events resulting in destroyed educational materials and infrastructure, climate-driven displacement, and linguistic barriers in new communities. Without access to education, vulnerable populations can experience exacerbated levels of poverty, hunger, and overreliance on climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture. In addition to external shocks, gender inequality imposes barriers to educa

A climate-smart and gender-responsive education system advances equitable, quality education and plays a crucial role in building climate resilience for vulnerable populations. Promoting girls’ education is a sustainable pathway to enhance global resilience to climate change. Synergies between efforts to achieve the Global Goals on education, gender equality, and climate change play an active role in shaping a resilient and sustainable future for all. By Carsyn Baxter, Lydia Kiros, and Mariana Felix Angioletti The effects of climate change hinder access to education for millions with extreme w