PCCB working group 2 - Cross-cutting issues

The PCCB working group 2 on cross-cutting issues focuses on integrating cross-cutting issues, such as gender responsiveness, human rights, indigenous peoples’ knowledge or youth, across the activities under the PCCB’s 2021-2024 workplan.

Working group member Marzena Chodor serves as Gender Focal Point, responsible for overseeing the implementation of the PCCB’s gender mainstreaming standard (contained in document FCCC/SBI/2019/13, annex).

External experts

Pertaining to the 5th PCCB meeting and several requests made by meeting observers with regard to supporting the PCCB working groups, the PCCB recently adopted communication and stakeholder engagement strategies for 2021-2024, which contain in an annex the criteria for opening PCCB working groups to external experts.

Based on these criteria, the PCCB invited four cross-cutting issue experts (on gender, human rights, indigenous peoples’ knowledge, and youth) to support working group 2, which seeks to integrate cross-cutting issues across activities under the PCCB’s workplan, on an activity-basis. They are listed on this page. 

The cross-cutting experts joined the working group during the planning stage of the 3rd Capacity-building Hub that was held at COP 26.

Activities in 2022

- Oversee the integration of cross-cutting issues, including gender responsiveness, human rights, indigenous peoples' knowledge and youth across the PCCB's work.

- Lead the final event of the youth-focused PCCB side event series “You(th) in Capacity-building” at the MENA climate weeks in March 2022.

Activities in 2021
  • Co-organized with the Adaptation Committee and the Least Developed Countries Expert Group an event on “Strengthening gender sensitivity in adaptation under the Convention and the Paris Agreement” on 8 November 2021 at COP 26.

  • Published a free, self-paced online training “An Introduction to Climate Change and Human Rights” jointly developed with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have collaborated in the development of an introductory course on climate change and human rights, with support from Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, implemented by the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ).
  • Provided substantive guidance on the youth-focused PCCB side event series “You(th) in Capacity-building” at the 2021 UNFCCC regional climate weeks.

Activities in 2020
  • Co-developing with OHCHR an online training tool aimed at building capacity to integrate human rights into climate action.
Activities in 2019

‘Building capacity for integrating human rights into climate action’
Joint workshop of the PCCB and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
26 June 2019, SB 50, Bonn
 

Activities in 2018