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A global review from The Lancet has also identified a link between climate change and domestic violence. The review found evidence that shows that extreme weather increases the likelihood of violence against women, particularly in poor countries where communities are unequipped to deal with the fallout from natural disasters.

Included in the data collected for the review was a 2021 study from researcher at St. Catherine University in Minnesota that reviewed extreme heat, flooding, and droughts in Kenya and found that domestic violence increased by 60 percent during extreme weather.

Terry McGovern from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health told the Washington Post when the review came out that the evidence linking climate change and domestic violence “overwhelming.”

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assured at the time that it has called attention to the link between climate change and violence against women. However Senior Climate and Resilience Adviser at ActionAid UK Sophie Riggs previously wrote that world climate plans were falling short on addressing global warming and emphasized that more attention needed to be placed on the threats against women.

"We need less rhetoric and a greater focus on women’s rights and actions to help them thrive and bring their communities out of poverty," she said. "Without this, the gendered injustice of climate change and the silent crisis for women and girls will only get worse."