Reducing gender inequalities in education helps mitigate climate change
基于全球长期连续数据，研究了缩小教育性别不平等对碳排放的影响，发现减少教育性别不平等，尤其是中学后教育，有助于缓解气候变化，为发展中国家提供了可行方案。
Promoting gender equality in education is a telling means of realizing the sustainable development goals (SDGs) aiming at gender equality and women's empowerment. Gender inequalities in education persist, exacerbated by climate change, which in turn affects efforts to combat climate change. However, researchers to date have stopped short of examining the extent to which the efforts to narrow gender inequality in education can affect carbon emissions. This paper aims to examine the correlation, impact mechanisms and heterogeneity between gender inequality in education and carbon emissions, based on continuous data covering the global scale over a long-time span. Here, we show that narrowing educational gender inequalities, especially in post-primary education, might contribute to mitigating climate change. Reducing gender inequalities in education is a feasible solution for developing countries to address climate concerns. The analyses indicate potential social means of tackling climate issues, and provide country-varying and education level-specific information for policymakers to take targeted actions to achieve further mitigation outcomes. • This paper explores potential social means of tackling climate issues. • Narrowing educational gender inequalities, especially in post-primary education, contributes to mitigating climate change. • Reducing gender inequalities in education is a feasible solution for developing countries to address climate concerns.