When Climate Changes the Route: Gender, Care, and the New Paths of Mobility in Crisis
About the event:
When we think about urban mobility, who are we talking about?
For a long time, cities have been planned around a “standard” subject: someone who travels in a linear way between home and formal work. But real life is far more complex.
Care-related journeys — taking children or older adults to appointments, accessing essential services, balancing paid and unpaid work — are interconnected, often invisible, and carried out mostly by women, with even greater impacts on Black and low-income communities.
In the context of the climate crisis, these challenges become even more severe: floods, heat waves, and extreme weather events make daily travel longer, more unsafe, and more exhausting.
How can we begin to rethink our cities through a lens that places gender perspectives and climate justice at the center of mobility systems?
These are the questions we will explore in the online seminar “When Climate Changes the Route: Gender, Care, and the New Paths of Mobility in Crisis.”
The event is a partnership between the initiative When Climate Changes the Route (Cidade Ativa) and the MIIS project (Inclusive, Intersectional and Sustainable Mobility), led by Instituto Pólis, Inesc, Instituto Peregum, and SOS Corpo, in partnership with the European Union.
June 10, 2026 | 9:00–11:00 AM (BRT)
Free online event
Language: Portuguese
Certificate of participation provided
About the organiser:
Instituto Pólis (Brazil) is a non-profit civil society organization that has been working since 1987 to promote and defend the Right to the City. With 38 years of experience, it brings together multidisciplinary teams of researchers who also actively participate in public debates on urban social issues.
We work toward building fairer, more democratic, sustainable, and inclusive cities based on three interconnected pillars: Territorial Justice, Socio-environmental and Climate Justice, and Racial, Gender, and LGBTQIA+ Justice.
Our strategies include the production of technical studies, evidence-based policy advocacy, training of social and governmental actors, implementation of solutions, strengthening of civil society networks, as well as communication and public engagement.
