Educational posters: gender & climate change (COP24)
These are the educational posters which you can find in the Women & Gender Constituency’s booth during the climate negotiations. They are updated every year ahead of the UNFCCC’s Conference of Parties (COP), and these are the ones presented at COP24 in Katowice.
Gender & climate technology
Climate actions must also promote gender responsive energy democracy and move us away from top-down, market-based approaches for energy production, distribution and control over natural resources. Communities, including women, should have control over their own energy systems as well as over other natural resources. End-of-pipe technologies such as carbon capture and storage, nuclear energy, biofuels and other unsafe energy proposals should be rejected as they still pose high risks and uncertainties over biodiversity, food security and livelihoods.
Gender & loss & damage
The world cannot expect poor people and poor countries to pay insurance premiums for a problem they did not create. Action to address loss and damage from climate change is an independent pillar of the Paris Agreement (Article 8). Roughly a quarter of NDCs include loss and damage, and 44% of small island developing states (SIDS) refer to loss and damage in their NDCs.
Gender & adaptation
Gender-responsive, ecosystem-based, community-driven and holistic approaches to climate change adaptation and resilience are essential for women’s livelihoods and for the planet. Governments should provide appropriate forms of legal, policy and financial support for such approaches. L
Gender responsive climate finance
While Parties have committed just over 10 billion USD to the Green Climate Fund (of which USD 2 billion from an initial USD 3 billion US pledge will not be forthcoming following the announced withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement), in 2015 alone, global military spending was calculated at $1.6 trillion (SIPRI). To meet climate finance gaps and fully implement the Paris Agreement and SDGs, countries should reallocate funds away from militarization to invest in gender equality, environment, social, economic and climate justice policies and programs.
Gender & climate mitigation
Gender- responsive, ecosystem-based, community-driven and holistic approaches to climate change mitigation and resilience are essential for women’s livelihoods and for the planet. Governments should provide appropriate forms of legal, policy and financial support for such approaches.
