“Intersectional systems of domination fuel climate change”: Maxime Forest Explains

What is the link between climate change and gender-based inequalities?

In this episode of FOCUS, Maxime Forest explains the connection between these two realities by presenting the research project he led with four other Sciences Po researchers in a project jointly run by l’Agence française de développement (AFD), Sciences Po's Programme de recherche et d’enseignement des savoirs sur le genre (PRESAGE) and l’Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE).

In the following video, he highlights the fact that our models of development are simultaneously founded upon the exploitation of ressources and the inequalities linked to gender norms.

In order to transcend stereotypes that present women as either victims of climate change or as miraculous sources of solutions in the context of the ecological transition, viewpoints which ultimately reproduce the status quo, Maxime Forest suggests that we must shift the balance of power between genders to begin to reduce our social and environmental footprint.

Discover this study’s transformative framing of gender relations and the new relationships between human beings and their environment that it encourages.  

The Sciences Po Editorial Team

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