This is a really important issue to talk about on #InternationalWomensDay: Climate is a women’s issue. Women across the world are saying NO! to climate inequality. Why is climate a women’s issue?⁣⁣ (THREAD)

A January 2020 report by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature found that climate breakdown and environmental degradation are driving an increase in violence against women.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ UN figures indicate that 80% of people displaced by climate change are women.⁣⁣

Globally, women are more likely to experience poverty, and to have less socioeconomic power than men. This makes it difficult to recover from disasters which affect infrastructure, jobs and housing. ⁣

This morning on International Women’s Day, a group of 31 women formed a topless chain across Waterloo Bridge – also known as The Ladies Bridge as many of the welders, stonemasons and labourers that built the bridge during the second world war were women.

The women were naked from the waist up to symbolise the vulnerability of women around the world in the face of climate breakdown, and had the words ‘Climate Rape’, ‘Climate Murder’, ‘Climate Abuse’, ‘Climate Inequality’ and ‘Climate Justice’ written on their bodies.