Inter Press Service: When ministers and government officials meet at the end of this year for a critical U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, they should bear in mind that the mortality rate for women during climate-related natural disasters is an average of 14 times higher than for men. “Existing inequalities determine who is dying,” Rebecca Pearl, the coordinator of the Global Gender & Climate Alliance, told IPS. After the 2004 Asian tsunami, the level of women’s mortality was in the …