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Why Climate Change Must Inform Gender Policy in India

Policy Brief

This policy brief recommends that India’s gender policy must be a part of the discourse on climate change because majority of India’s working women live off climate sensitive natural resources but have no ownership or control over these resources. The study also looks at gender budgets in the adaptive sectors in the four study states – Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal to find that not all States have adopted this tool.

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