The Government allocated more than 13,000 euros to a study of climate risks from a gender perspective

The Government allocated 13,303.95 euros to carry out the report 'Climate risks from a gender perspective. Perception, positioning and adaptation in women and men'.

The work, carried out by the company Red 2 Red Consultores, which submitted an offer for 10,995 euros without taxes, which with them rose to 13,303.95 euros. However, this was the only offer that was presented to carry out the work commissioned by the Women's Institute.

This is stated in a written response from the Government to which Europa Press has had access to the question regarding the cost of said study raised by the Vox parliamentary group, which wanted to know the amount allocated by the Executive budget for this purpose.

The object of the contract, whose bidding base without taxes amounted to 12,000 euros, was to carry out a “diagnostic analysis from the gender perspective on the position of women and men, impacts, vulnerability, perception and risk management in situations of disasters due to conditions and a document of proposals and recommendations”.

The Government details in its response that the lines of action of the report are those aimed at climate-resilient development and that provide greater benefits to the entire population, such as those leading to reducing or avoiding greenhouse gas emissions; access to energy and clean technologies that improve health, especially in the case of women, children and girls; low carbon electrification; walking, cycling and public transport, to improve air quality, health and employment opportunities, while promoting equity.

Precisely, the Government highlights that “as in many other areas of life, the climate crisis is not impartial in terms of gender”, since numerous international reports confirm that women and girls worldwide suffer the worst effects of climate change, exacerbating existing gender inequality and posing unique threats to their livelihoods, health and security.

The Executive also reminded Vox that at the UN Climate Action Summit held in New York on September 23, 2019, Spain led, together with Peru, the initiative to place the gender variable at the center of policies to combat climate change. climate change, being held in Madrid in December of the same year the Conference of the Parties COP25.

Finally, he adds that as a result of the lack of data disaggregated by sex in the analysis of the matter, the Institute is investigating the gender gaps as a result of the climate crisis and the commissioned report comes after the analysis on gender and climate change carried out between 2019 and 2020.