Topic outline

  • Introduction to Gender & Climate Change

    GenderCC Why is it important to address gender issues in climate change policy?

    Is gender relevant in adaptation only, or in other areas too?

    This section provides a brief introduction and overview on gender and climate change. Step by step the issues will be tackled under the different headlines below.

    • Definitions and glossary

      • Glossary

        The glossary provides you with definitions and explanations of terms used in the gender and climate change context.

        Those registered to GenderCC's Global Learning Platform can add terms and / or comment on given explanations.

    • Gender and Climate Change - different aspects

      To see full content, click on each headline below.

      • Why gender in climate change? Page

        Why is it important to integrate gender into the climate change policy?

        Women and men contribute differently to the causes of climate change, are differently affected by climate change, react differently to its impacts and, given the choice, favour different solutions to mitigate and options for dealing with the consequences of climate change.

        These differences are based on traditional gendered roles and responsibilities in most societies, and on gendered access to resources and political influence. [...]

      • Gendered Causes: Carbon Emissions Page

        A gendered analysis of emissions reveals the fact that energy consumption in the developed world is a function of gendered roles, responsibilities and identities. [...]

      • Gendered Solutions: Markets, Technologies, Forests Page

        Most of the current solutions to mitigate climate change, as promoted by the Kyoto Protocol, are market or technology driven. [...]

      • Gendered Impacts: Adaptation Page

        As predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change impacts will be distributed differently among different regions, generations, age classes, income groups, occupations and genders. [...]

      • Technology Exchange Page

        Gender responsive technologies are defined as a set of technologies that pay due attention to gender-differentiated needs and constraints, reduce drudgery among women, release time for alternative activities, and promote labour efficiency and sustained household economic and welfare gains. [...]

      • Gendered Financing Mechanisms Page

        Climate change funds have only gained very small budgets, with only marginal benefits for the poorest countries and groups of people. So far, women are not targeted by these financing instruments. [...]

    • Discussion

      • Discussion forum

        In the discussion forum you can make use of the expertise of the gender and climate change community involved here by aksing questions or providing your input.

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    • Further reading