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"Awareness of the links between gender and climate change has only recently developed, and gender issues have yet to be fully integrated into climate change policies. In addition, issues of climate justice tend to be overlooked. The effects of climate change will have a disproportionate impact on women, and we therefore consider it important to emphasise that climate change needs to be an absolute priority for the European Union. Gender-based discrimination is found everywhere in our societies. It is therefore essential that we are not indifferent towards the situation in our climate policies. The inclusion of gender issues provides an opportunity to make the fight against climate change stronger, fairer and more effective. I firmly believe that it is important to base our approach equally on two principles – addressing the effects of inequality and tackling its causes, principally by increasing women’s financial independence and their means of emancipation. Although, at European Union level, the links between gender and development policy are well established, the link between gender and mitigation policy has been neither explored nor used. I fear that, if no effort is made to take account of the gender perspective when drawing up comprehensive policies, these policies run the risk of obstructing efforts to achieve equality between men and women."@en1
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