Explorando enfoques interseccionales para la adaptación al cambio climático

The document argues that while intersectionality is increasingly recognized as vital for equitable climate adaptation, its practical application remains limited. It presents a framework of 'fundamental principles' (focusing on systemic vulnerability, agency, and power) and 'process principles' (such as positionality reflection and context-specificity) to be integrated across the four stages of the adaptation cycle: risk assessment, planning, implementation, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL).

• Intersectional marginalization increases climate vulnerability because affected individuals are often excluded from decision-making and have limited access to resources, information, and services.
• While gender-sensitive approaches are common in National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), focusing solely on gender can obscure the agency and privileges of some women and limit the ability to address other relevant inequalities.
• The document establishes four 'fundamental principles' for intersectional adaptation: adopting a systemic approach, centering people in high-vulnerability situations, focusing on agency, and addressing power relations.
• Intersectional risk assessments must move beyond general data to use disaggregated data and indigenous/local knowledge, analyzed specifically to show how intersecting inequality structures exacerbate vulnerability.
• In the planning phase, intersectional approaches require prioritizing adaptation measures that address structural inequalities and weighting social vulnerability criteria more heavily in multi-criteria analysis.
• Effective intersectional implementation requires ensuring free, prior, and informed consent, providing safeguards for vulnerable people, and investing in accessibility supports such as childcare or eldercare.
• Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) must shift accountability from funders to the people affected, capturing failures and unintended negative impacts alongside successes to evaluate equity in outcomes.

APA

Dazé, A., & Christoffersen, A. (2025). Explorando enfoques interseccionales para la adaptación al cambio climático. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2026-04/intersectional-approaches-climate-change-adaptation-es.pdf

Chicago

Dazé, Angie, and Ashlee Christoffersen. Explorando enfoques interseccionales para la adaptación al cambio climático. International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2025. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2026-04/intersectional-approaches-climate-change-adaptation-es.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{daz2025explorando, author = {Dazé, Angie and Christoffersen, Ashlee}, title = {{Explorando enfoques interseccionales para la adaptación al cambio climático}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2025}, month = may, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2026-04/intersectional-approaches-climate-change-adaptation-es.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }