there is evidence indicating that climate change climate variability and extreme environmental events and natural disasters result in women due to their social roles carvajalescobar etal their extensive knowledge and expertise should also be used in climate change mitigation disaster reduction and adaptation strategies and at the national level evidence suggests that countries with higher proportions of women in political leadership perform much better on climate change mitigation than governments with fewer women possibly due to women being more concerned than men about the impact of climate change in such countries womens environmental network and national federation of womens institutes