CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

HISTORICAL EMISSIONS OF CO2 SINCE THE

BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS, 1900-1999

SEA LEVEL ELEVATION:

RESEARCHERS ESTIMATE THAT SEA LEVEL WILL RISE BETWEEN 1

AND 5 M ALONG ALL THE COSTS AROUND THE WORLD, AFFECTING

44% OF THE WORLD POPULATION

Diego Rivera, Mexico, 1949Mexico, 2007

Pococatepel

Melting of the Pococatepel glacier, Mexico 1949 to 2007

MELTING OF THE GANGOTRI GLACIAR, 1790 TO 2001

CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING EFFECTS:

THE POWER OF TORNADOS AND HURRICANES HAVE INCREASED:

IN 2005 WE RAN OUT OF NAMES FOR TROPICAL STORMS (THAT

INCLUDES CARIBBEAN HURRICANES) AND WE HAD TO START

USING THE GREEK ALPHABET

HURACANE KATRINA, USA, 2005

HURRICANE RITA (PEVETO BEACH)2005

INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI EFFECTS

BANDA ACEH, 2005

PANKARANG CAPE - 2004

Katchall Island, India, 2004

ARAL SEA SHRINKING

DUE TO THE USE OF WATERS TO IRRIGATE

COTTON FIELDS

GLOBAL POLICY

WOMEN IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

SOME CONCLUSIONS

• At the Global level, although steps are being taken in relation to integrated women and climate change, we must take into account the role and position of them in different local settings, especially in finding both solutions to the climate crisis as the shortage of water.

•While a number of documents created in recent years on Climate Change, the ability to incorporate policies that includes youth and women is very weak, even in national or regional levels, we can see that there are recurring issues identified in relation to the participation of women with respect to resource access.

•The global changes that began getting attention in relation to water resources need to be addressed in order to forewarn the action, just as we need to work on adaptation strategies that take into account local realities, practices promoting efficient resource use in different contexts social.

SOME RECOMENDATIONS

• It is necessary to investigate and to analyze the reality of women effective

strategies to raise about the role that women play as primary users of water,

to increase and ensure access to water resources so as to participation in the

processes decision-making.

• Perform an analysis of roles within different contexts, to identify bottlenecks

that limit participation in studies and interpretations based on local realities to

take into account certain uses and customs relating to the structure of local

decision making, incorporated panoramas within macros up to meet regional

expectations.

• Work on strengthening local institutions to incorporate mechanisms that

enable women to increase their participation, taking into account their

domestic role as productive and within the community.

SOME RECOMEDATIONS

• Empowering women as the main user in relation to resource conservation in

order to make sustainable use of the same by ensuring the same long-term

and taking into account the main uses, both domestic as productive.

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Case studies on the recovery of technology and local knowledge and

ancestral to cope with the problems caused by the abrupt introduction of

certain technologies, as well as models of community management of

resources by ensuring the good of the community.

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Skills that lead to empowerment of women in relation to technologies needed

to make more efficient use of resources, such as more sophisticated irrigation

techniques, dams and other