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Gender and Climate Change at COP-9

Five main areas of concern were identified:

• lack of gender specificity in the criteria related to the climate change instruments;
• Lack of gender specificity in relation to the vulnerability/adaptation discourse;
• The need for case studies which illustrate both how climate change itself, and how projects (both mitigation and adaptation), affect men and women differently;
• The underlying gender connections between climate change agreements and other international processes such as the Convention on Biodiversity and health related treaties on pesticides etc.;
• The lack of participation of women in the whole process.

A number of cross-cutting issues were also identified including how to tackle the lack of awareness of these problems at the national and local levels.

It was decided to aim for a one-day event at COP-10 to bring all these issues to the greater climate community. Five subgroups were set up to deal with the five themes outlined. The subgroups will meet during the remaining period of COP-9 in order to plan their inputs to COP-10.

Further to COP-9, a Gender and Climate Change Network has been established, which is currently being managed by ETC Foundation.

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