As climate change intensifies across Ontario, its impact is being felt far beyond melting ice caps and rising temperatures. A quieter but growing crisis is emerging in the unpaid/underpaid care sector, where women, particularly racialized, immigrant and low-income women shoulder the brunt of environmental disruption. This intersection of climate change and care work remains largely overlooked in policy discussions, yet it is increasingly shaping the lives and livelihoods of thousands of women in the province.  Care work, including child care, elder care and domestic responsibilities, is deeply gendered. According to a 2022 report by Statistics Canada, women perform nearly twice as much unpaid care work as men. This burden increases…