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The global climate emergency is making the global care crisis worse. These interlocking impacts have devastating consequences for all people and places. These impacts are particularly severe for rural livelihoods of low-income countries. Climate change increases the amount of work involved in caring to people, animals, plants, or places. It reduces the accessibility and quality of public service in marginalized communities, and directly increases inequality by distributing unpaid care work to sustain gender inequality.
However, the intersections between climate change and carework have been neglected in the development literature. Climate adaptation and mitigation strategies have not considered how climate impacts affect care work, nor whether interventions can improve or intensify the situation for carers. Instead, when designing “gender-sensitive” climate actions, the focus has been largely on women’s economic empowerment as opposed to alleviating or transforming existing distributions of care work.
This report aims to fill a knowledge gap. It examines the interaction between climate change impacts, the amount, distribution, conditions, and costs of unpaid care work. While we are more concerned with care workers than those who provide care, we acknowledge the relationship nature of care and recognize that carers also require care.
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