Source: Siyanda

By: Johnsson-Latham, G.

Full Title: "A Study on Gender Equality as a Prerequisite for Sustainable

Development: What we Know about the Extent to which Women Globally Live in

a More Sustainable Way than Men, Leave a Smaller Ecological Footprint and

Cause Less Climate Change"

Published by: The Environment Advisory Council Ministry of the Environment,

Sweden

Published: 2007

[Please note: The information below has been adapted directly from the

source.]

How can a gender perspective facilitate more sustainable economic growth

and well-being for all? This paper, which was presented at the 15th meeting

of the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development in May 2007,

grapples with this question. It offers new pointers for work on sustainable

development by identifying gender-specific differences in terms of male and

female consumption patterns, lifestyles, and access to resources, and

explains how these differences are crucially important for achieving

sustainable development. It focuses on issues of mobility and access to

transport - since transportation of people and goods represents one of the

largest and fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, which in

turn substantially affect the earth's climate. The case is made for

promoting sustainable and gender-equitable transport, for example by

boosting women's participation in decision-making on community planning,

traffic systems and transportation. The need to pay more attention to

strengthening the social dimensions of sustainability is also stressed -

for example through developing gender-equitable welfare models which focus

less on goods and more on services that reduce the ill-health, stress and

time poverty experienced disproportionately by women.

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