Gender lens crucial to understanding climate vulnerability, justice: Experts

New Delhi, Oct 8 (UNI) Climate change is deepening existing inequalities, with women facing disproportionate impacts on livelihoods, education and access to resources, experts said at the launch of a new volume examining the gender dimensions of climate vulnerability and the transition to a low-carbon economy. Chintan Research Foundation (CRF) launched "Gendering Climate Futures: Power, Finance, and Justice in a Warming World" in New Delhi on Wednesday. Edited by Kalyani Shukla and Sandra Kurian, the volume examines gender, climate vulnerability, access to resources, agency, finance and participation in the just transition, with a focus on South Asia and India. Opening…