A young woman's representative from the Marshall Islands says women bore the brunt of the social impacts of the severe drought there earlier this year.
And Yoshiko Yamaguchi told delegates at the 12th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women it's an example of how climate change is an emerging women's issue.
She says the drought threatened Marshallese women's livelihoods and they suffered more abuse and relationship problems.
She says they couldn't make handicrafts because the raw material had died, and they were stressed worrying about their family's health and not being able to do normal household chores.
Yoshiko Yamaguchi says there needs to be a stronger link between the women's movement and climate change issues, and sharing personal stories is the way to bring things home.
