Participation in environmental decision making tends to favour certain social groups of men, whether in local environmental committees, international climate negotiations  or the IPCC . Addressing climate justice reinforces the importance of considering the legacy of colonialism on developing regional and local adaptation strategies. Scholars have criticised climate programmes for setting aside forestland that poor people rely on and appropriating the labour of women in the Global South without compensatory social policy or rights; where women are expected to work with non-timber forest products to compensate for the lack of logging and for global climate goals, but where their work of social reproduction and care is paid little attention . A global ecologically unequal exchange, biopiracy, damage from toxic exports or the disproportionate use of carbon sinks and reservoirs by high-income countries enhance the negative impacts of climate change. Women in Least Developed Countries  and Small Island Developing States  also endure the harshest impacts of the debt crisis due to imposed debt measures in their countries . The austerity measures derived as conditionalities for fiscal consolidation in public services increases gender-based violence  and brings additional burdens for women in the form of increasing unpaid care and domestic work .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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