Climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies should not only be concerned with providing new employment and livelihood opportunities but should also address the various structural barriers that heighten the vulnerability of the most affected individuals prohibiting them from adapting to changing climatic conditions and benefiting from policies and programmes designed to improve their climate resilience. This paper, therefore, focuses on the human rights consequences of climate induced disasters, particularly for young girls and women in the Indian context and how the inclusion of gendered vulnerabilities has often been neglected in climate change policies leaving young girls and women more vulnerable to climate change impacts. The primary objective of this paper is to highlight how climate change exacerbates pre-existing gender inequalities and also compound intersecting forms of discrimination against young girls and women belonging to poor and marginalized sectionsof the Indian society who are often affected disproportionately compared to men.

Women, Gender Based Violence, Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation Strategy, India