Gender and Climate Change Mitigation

Credit: UNDP/Silke von Brockhausen

Action to mitigate climate change has the potential to also bring about local gender-positive impacts. This may be achieved by the general nature of a mitigation project or programme, such as clean energy for household lighting or cooking, or by gender equity impacts being specifically considered early in the project planning stage e.g. considering where revenues will flow. Projects under the Kyoto Protocol's flexible mechanisms, CDM and JI, have shown themselves to have potentially positive impacts on the lives of women by improving livelihoods and health and allowing time for the pursuit of additional opportunities.

UNFCCC Knowledge Resources

REDD+ web platform

UN-REDD Programme Online Collaborative Workspace - Join the Gender and REDD+ Group

Additional Resources

Resource	Institution
Gender Advocacy Toolkit: A New Guide on Strategic Engagement of Women in Clean Energy	wPower
Vocational Training and Education for Clean Energy (VOCTEC) Aims to improve the sustainability of renewable energy infrastructure and investments in developing countries by increasing awareness, knowledge and capacity of local stakeholders, primarily in decentralized clean energy technologies	Arizona State University (ASU), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
wPower Training and provision of access to products and microfinance to empower the typically female, VAs, to become involved in growing clean energy markets by establishing of their own micro-clean energy enterprises	ARTI Energy
Mainstreaming Gender in Energy Projects Knowledge Products Strategy to mainstream gender in energy projects	ENERGIA
Mitigation of climate change in agriculture A new module for the Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook co-published by the World Bank, IFAD, and FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The Business Case for Mainstreaming Gender in REDD+ Aims to integrate gender equality considerations into the readiness support delivered by the UN-REDD Programme and seeks to enhance the capacities of governments to design and implement gender-responsive national REDD+ strategies and programmes	UN-REDD Programme
Guidance Note on Gender Sensitive REDD+ A guide for those engaged in REDD+ efforts at the local, national, regional or global level	UN-REDD Programme
The Business Case for Mainstreaming Gender in REDD+ Aims to integrate gender equality considerations into the readiness support delivered by the UN-REDD Programme and seeks to enhance the capacities of governments to design and implement gender-responsive national REDD+ strategies and programmes	United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Gender Mainstreaming in Mitigation and Technology Development and Transfer Interventions This capacity-building package has been designed for policymakers to guide them on how to promote gender equality across all levels of policy and programming in climate change, and to provide them with the necessary tools to do so	United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Guide on gender mainstreaming: Energy and climate change projects Is part of an organization-wide initiative to mainstream gender into all of UNIDO's technical cooperation projects and programmes	United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Gender in Mitigation Actions: EGI Brief Governments, institutions and agencies have been slow to consider ways in which women and gender considerations can be well integrated in mitigation planning - but the trend may be improving, as this Brief discusses	International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Promoting gender equality in global forest conservation and climate change mitigation Highlights its projects around the world that are helping make forest landscape restoration and REDD+ more gender responsive	International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Webinars Providing innovative approaches, technical support, policy development and capacity building to ensure gender equality is central to sustainable global environmental solutions	International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Global Gender Office (GGO)
Women in African Power (WIAP) A network dedicated to advancing the role and representation of women within the energy sector in Africa	United States Agency for International Development (USAID)