the relationshipis not simply a oneway relationship with climate change impacting on different sexes in different ways or more specifically having a greater negative impact on women and girls than men and boys the association between gender and climate change also encompasses the impact that women have had to date in shaping climate change policies at the subnational national and international levels in addition to high fatalities loss of homes and livelihoods women and girls also experience secondary impacts including sexual and genderbased violence sgbv and trauma loss or reduction of economic opportunities and increased workloads