Girl-centered youth climate action

The girl's performance stands out in youth climate action, which is demonstrate by youth for more active actions to climate change mitigation. Climate change is becoming more and more serious, and it is possible to recognize climate change in everyday life thru the abnormal weather such as heat waves, floods and refugees’ issues caused by climate change. According to the Sustainable development goal 13- Climate Action, every country needs to take urgent steps to build resilience and adaptation to the impacts of climate change including awareness and regulations. Especially the younger generation have shown a great recognition for the seriousness of environmental problems and a fear of the future. The girl is now effectively leading the youth climate action with most energized, motivated, passionate, and strongest voices.

Youth climate action

Definition

According to the Sustainable development goal 13- Climate Action, every country needs to take urgent steps to build resilience and adaptation to the impacts of climate change including awareness and regulations. Youth climate action is climate action by youth (defined by the United Nations as 15–24 years). Fridays for Future (FFF, School Strike) is a typical form of youth climate action that began in August 2018, after Greta Thunberg. The involvement of youth in combating climate change is crucial and many are already taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to increase climate change resilience.

Speciality of climate action by youth

Youth-based communication may spur action among current adults where other strategies have failed. Children may be able to overcome anti-reflexive tendencies of adults through intergenerational learning (IGL) in the context of climate change. Indeed, communication pathways through children are uniquely positioned to combat the anti-reflexive nature of adult perceptions on climate change.

Anna-Bertha Heeris Christensen, PhD Fellow at the Department of Marketing at CBS, said "Youth can be the voice of the people. Youth appears genuine, as people don’t associate her with those normally in power". Furthermore, Emil Husted, Assistant Professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, said about Greata Thunberg: “Being an empty signifier, and that’s not a bad thing, means a lot of people can see themselves as being represented by her(Greta Thunberg).

Supports for youth climate action

UNICEF made special web pages called Voices of Youth, which is the platform of opinion about youth from across the globe by youth. Also, in the UN climate summit 2019 convened a summit for young people completely devoted to climate action.

Relevant group for youth climate action

• Fridays for Future (https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/)(FFF, School Strike)
• Connect4Climate
• YOUNGO (Children and Youth constituency to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) has official events, The Conference of Youth (COY) and local COYs (LCOYs)

• Global Climate Strike is supported by 350.org providing information related to climate change and introducing various concrete methods of climate action.

Girl centered youth climate action

Women as active agents, not passive victims, in environmental management and environmental struggles like environmental collective action. Many women have been important leaders in environmentalism. The inspiration for Rachel’s Network, Rachel Carson, sparked a movement with the publication of her book Silent Spring and her subsequent activism. Other activists, such as Jane Goodall, Terri Swearingen, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Lois Gibbs, and Theo Colborn, among many others, have followed in her footsteps, matching her efforts and passion with their own.Their work is a model for activism among women, who articulate strong support for environmental issues in surveys of political attitudes. These findings jibe with results of a recent poll of American teenagers conducted by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation. The poll found that 46 percent of girls said climate change was “extremely important” to them personally, compared with 23 percent of boys. Currently, there are many girl who leading climate action such as, Greta thunberg, Autumn Peltier, Nina Gualinga, Marinel Ubaldo, Riley Ruff, Madelaine Tew, Katie Eder, Jamie Margolin, Nadia Nazar, Alexandria Villaseñor.

Ecofeminism

Ecofeminism starts from a recognition of the centrality of ‘nature’ to human existence. Central to ecofeminist thought is the argument that to the extent that women stand in a gendered relationship to human embodiment, they have a special awareness of the nature and consequences of human embodiment either as differently bodies beings or as people differently concerned with human embodiment. To claim that women have a privileged perspective on the ecological dilemmas facing humanity is a contentious one for feminism. Ecofeminism starts from a recognition of the centrality of ‘nature’ to human existence. Historically, in the midst of European Enlightenment, women were excluded from rationality and subjectivity by the claim that women were closer to nature, given their capacity to create new life—just as nature does. There are two variants of the argument [of ecofeminism]. One is that women are in fact closer to nature than men and that this closeness can affirm more nurturing and caring values both between humans and between humans and ‘non-human’ nature. Some trace this closeness to historical and cultural factors, other mainly to women’s biology. The other variant of the argument is that women are identified as closer to nature and men as closer to culture. Nature is seen as inferior to culture, hence women are seen as inferior to men. The domination of women and the exploitation of nature are seen as interrelated and as having historically emerged together from a common world view.

Pro-Environmental Behavior(PEB)

Girls report more pro-environmental behavior than boys. Students with greater knowledge about the environment or more pro-environmental attitudes are more likely to report action for the environment. According to one research, environmental knowledge affects pro-environmental attitude which affects on environmental action. This causal relationship is clearer in male. Unlike male, female act according to self-efficacy. Also, women relatively distinct from men’s, of cooperate functioning within traditional social networks characterized by reciprocity and mutual dependency.

Women’s Attitudes Toward the Environment

• Most men and women support increased government spending for the environment. Women, though, are less likely than men to support environmental spending cuts.
• Women have more positive feelings about environmental activists than men do.
• Women are particularly concerned about environmental problems that create risks for their health and safety, especially at the local level.
• Women’s higher levels of empathy, altruism, and personal responsibility make them more interested in environmentalism as a way to protect not only themselves and their families, but also others.

Women’s Political Activism and the Environment

• Women are more likely than men to volunteer for and give money to environmental causes.
• Women’s environmental leadership has been particularly prominent in a few key areas, especially in local environmental movements and in green consumerism.
• Since both environmentalism and political participation are linked to income and education, higher-income, highly educated women are more likely to respond to efforts to mobilize activists.

Vulnerability for climate change as a girl

The Global Gender and Climate Alliance, lays out many more categories of concern, acknowledging that “the impacts” of global climate change will be differentially distributed among different regions, generations, age, classes, income groups, occupations, and between women and men.

Women mainly rely on livelihoods for natural resources. In addition, they face social, economic and political barriers that limit their ability to cope. There are two kinds of labor in the capitalist system. Production labor where wages are paid and reproductive labor that do not. Women are primarily engaged in reproductive labor. Reproductive labor also includes access to resources-such as water and solid fuel supplies. Long routes to get resources by climate change might take away education change for girls. Also, women are primarily engaged in care patients in family as a reproductive labour, increasing water and vector borne diseases because of global warming can give more burden for women. In addition, women are excluded from production labor. This reduction of income in the agriculture and fishery by climate change has a greater impact on women who are limited in income activity. And climate migration causes women to lose their livelihoods, make it more difficult to obtain economic and social rights, and increases the mortality rate of women in the poorest countries.

Women suffer gender-specific forms of status subordination, including sexual harassment, sexual assault, and domestic violence; trivializing, objectifying. When not enough food is supplied to a family, men are given priority to access to restricted food than women or girl, as in the patriarchy. It can be explained as Radical Feminism which men dominate women in a socio-economic context is revealed. It cause more vulnerable in terms of nutrition and health for female. There are also more risk of sexual harassment on their journey to get water or fuel and at the shelter provided because of natural disasters.

Importance of the Girl centered youth climate action

Considering gender dimension on the youth climate action is useful to get objectivity because it is by women which is subordinate group in the masculine society. In order to gain a causal critical view of the interests and values that constitute the dominant conceptual projects, one must start one's thought, one's research project, from outside those conceptual schemes and the activities that generate them; one must start from the lives excluded as origins of their design - from "marginal lives" such as women's lives.

Also, the girl who participate in climate action is expected more moral-civic activism in the future than who did not participate.

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