Addressing social consequences of climate change: impacts on development, employment, health and gender.

The event will highlight the multidimensional nature of climate change, far beyond the environmental impacts. Climate change impacts have shown to hit the most vulnerable, specially developing world’s poor the hardest, because they are more likely to be dependent on the very resources impacted and because they have far lesser capacity to protect and adapt themselves. In fact, these impacts threaten to undo the hard fought achievements made towards the MDGs now and in the future. Despite this, climate change presents opportunities to achieve a more climate-resilient development future. On the other hand, policies and measures needed to address these impacts and to reduce the amount of emissions will profoundly affect in different directions the life of people of countries around the world.