ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that urban climate policy is emerging as a key site of action from a gender-perspective. Urbanisation presents a growing challenge closely linked to climate change and the actions taken to address it. At present, 54 per cent of the world's population lives in urban areas. Spatial inequality, and urban inequality more broadly, is a relevant factor for climate change, both in terms of the causes of climate change and vulnerability to its impacts. Research on the social dimensions of climate change suggests that climate change impacts will serve to further exacerbate existing inequalities. Rural-urban migration is an increasingly relevant consideration in the context of climate change, with the use of migration as a coping factor already shown to have clear gender impacts. The main driver of climate change is the economy, both in terms of production and consumption.
