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As we say climate resilience within the purview of gender perspective, the two issues are to be linked with each other in context. The paper views through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of Parties (COP), Kyoto Protocol, Green Climate Fund (GCF), Paris agreement, International Forum for Environment, Sustainability & Technology (iFOREST) & finally the efforts of Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MOEFCC) of Government of India. On the other hand, regarding gender perspective, the paper focuses on the issue of preservation of indigenous seeds variety in the context of Genetically Modified Foods (GMF) that cover the preservation of indigenous variety of seeds as a challenge to the domain of GMF. Climate resilience and water stressed areas are interlinked. Here both the issues of GMF & water stress are interwoven with the lives of women. Climate resilience efforts and water stress has put pressure on agricultural lands of joint families & leading to land distribution in the families. As a sequel to the familial land distribution and high cost of agricultural inputs, the income stresses in the families have escalated. As a result of the escalation, women's participation in the labor force has increased. Earlier, it was a thought process that working women will eventually lead to women empowerment. Currently, empowered and working women are also under threat. Due to patriarchal mindset, insecurities among spouses have escalated if the women happen to earn more in cash or kind. This precarious situation has led to high prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). The issue of IPV violates basic human rights, undermines economic potential, reduces productivity, negatively impacts future generations when children witness violence at home. Besides the concept of interlinking issues, the resurge of geriatric population in the near future will also impact health care at domiciliary levels. Resurge of climatic temperature will lead to extra effort in reducing internal temperature at home. With a burden on the household economy to keep the home cool coupled with rising food prices, the working dividend male population will be under tremendous pressure to feed both the ends of demography. The dependant population at the initial end of life through the U5 population & through the geriatrics at the distal end of life will become a burden at the national level that is culminated by burden at the family level. The geriatric population will need an extensive domiciliary care that is again going to put further burden on the women at the household level. As way outs, the paper sees the role of the male gender to diversify skill set, develop risk taking capacity so that they sustain the income of the households. For the females, multi tasking is the way out in nuclear families. While being tech centric, both the genders need to be socio centric as well. Social cohesiveness coupled with spousal mutual respect will help us to improve the performances in various gender related indexes. Healthy behavior regarding household waste management & adoption of renewable sources of energy, rain water harvesting will not only add to climate resilience efforts for the current generation but also the future generations. Similarly, efforts at mass level like focus on alternative energy sources, graduating from coal in a phased manner, reducing fossil fuels will bring the nation to better position in the progress of the Sustainable Development Goal number 13.12