Presenting on behalf of the Women and Gender Constituency on “Good practices and lessons learned in fostering public participation in climate change policy decision-making and action”.
Presenting on behalf of the Women and Gender Constituency on “Good practices and lessons learned in fostering public participation in climate change policy decision-making and action”.
“Women are the majority of the world’s subsistence agricultural producers, poor livestock keepers and involved in natural resource management. Women play an essential role in land use in general and future land sector and land use negotiations should recognize them as rights holders with unique needs, preferences and contributions and ensure that actions proposed are based on a gender-responsive approach that recognizes the gender-differentiated use of, access to, and control of the land resources provided through land use.”
“We make a strong call to the COP Presidency to ensure that the principles of gender equality and the human rights are fully incorporated in Lima’s outcomes under the ADP. Furthermore, in Lima, we look for concrete progress under the COP agenda item on Gender and Climate Change- taking forward Party recommendations from the Warsaw Conclusions, which included workshops to further incorporate a gender lens across aspects of climate policy; and monitoring and reporting of implementation of gender-sensitive climate actions by Parties.”
“In these past months SBSTA has made substantial progress integrating gender in some of its agenda items. Particularly, the Constituency welcomes the report of technical expert meeting on available tools for the use of indigenous knowledge and practices for adaptation, and the application of gender-sensitive approaches and tools for adaptation considered under agenda item 3 on the Nairobi Work Programme….Lastly, all land sector and land use negotiations should recognize and incorporate gender as a crucial crosscutting issue; recognize women as stakeholders with unique needs, preferences and contributions; focus on resources on/from land, and not the land itself; and ensure that actions proposed are based on a gender-responsive approach.”
“The Constituency views this session as an important moment for articulating with Parties how gender equality can be appropriately integrated into the new agreement. Examples from the integration of gender into the Green Climate Fund architecture as well as strong language in the Cancun agreements on human rights and gender equality provide precedents and models to review in considering options. The Constituency members are committed to work and support Parties on this articulation at this sessions.”
Comments and recommendations for Parties to consider in the areas of adaptation, mitigation, capacity building and participation. “where the SBI reviews work on mitigation and technology, we remind Parties that mitigation policies in general, and for the energy and transport sectors in particular, should build on gender sensitive methodologies to address the energy and transportation needs of women and men, while improving their wellbeing, access to basic services and access to markets.”
Conclusions by the chair on gender and climate change, including the appreciation of efforts by the women and gender constituency, among others, in relation to gender balance gender-sensitive climate policy.
Submission to the UNFCCC to promote gender balance and improve the participation and representation of women in UNFCCC negotiations, the COP invited Parties and observer organizations to submit their views on options and ways to advance the gender balance goal.
Action and tools for achieving gender balance under the UNFCCC and more effective and informed gender-sensitive climate policy.
Best practices and available tools for the use of indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices for adaptation, and the application of gender-sensitive approaches for understanding and assessing impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change.
Submission to the UNFCCC to promote gender balance and improve the participation and representation of women in UNFCCC negotiations, the COP invited Parties and observer organizations to submit their views on options and ways to advance the gender balance goal.
Improving women’s participation and effective climate change policy that addresses the needs of women and men equally
Report on the progress of gender balance, including the representation of women from regional groups, and a breakdown of the gender composition of delegations
Intervention in audacity in the negotations
Intervention on the role of public particiaption, the risks of nuclear energy, poverty elimation and funding windows for women to enable women to contribute to strong climate mitigation and adapation
Intervention on addressing gender effectively in climate negotations as fundamental, crosscutting challenge in addressing inequalities
Intervention on behalf of the Women and Gender Constituency calling for ambitious and specific measures, and the exclusion of high risk and damaging technology and energy sources.
Action taken by the Parties, including promoting gender balance and improving the participation of women in UNFCCC negotiations and in the representation of Parties
African civil society declaration on environmental sustainability and climate change towards the post-2015 development framework