Gender, climate change and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Maguire, Rowena

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“…It stresses the importance of increasing the number of women in these important bodies to promote more inclusive and diverse participation. 98 Moreover, CEDAW General Recommendation No. 37 on Gender-related dimensions of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change.…”

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Engendering the Legal Framework for Environmentally Sustainable Development: Some Reflections

Kameri-Mbote,

Kabira

2024

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The idea of “sustainable development” was first recognized in 1972 at the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm. The Conference did not make reference to the concept explicitly but recognized that the concepts of “sustainability” and “development” that were previously addressed separately could be addressed together to create more benefits. The Conference recognised the importance of environmental management for the purposes of sustainable development. In the years that followed the 1972 conference, terms such as “environment and development,” “development without destruction,” “eco-development,” and “environmentally sound development” became common in publications and the works of the United Nations. This article examines the international legal framework on sustainable development and evaluates the extent to which these laws ensure environmentally sustainable development. The article argues that although the legal framework on environmentally sustainable development is quite extensive and steps are being made to engender them, there is still need to move beyond formal equality and substantive equality to transformative equality. The paper draws on feminist perspectives and calls for engendering the legal framework so as to make environmental sustainability a reality.

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Engendering the Legal Framework for Environmentally Sustainable Development: Some Reflections

Kameri-Mbote,

Kabira

2024

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“…While this may appear simplistic, it is of vital importance as women's voices are still excluded and marginalized in climate discourse. 136 For instance, Laos and Kiribati are critiqued for the limited participation of women in programmes and mitigation policies on climate change and disaster risk reduction. 137 The CEDAW Committee is fleshing out the nuances of women's equal participation.…”

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Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice

2023

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“…Furthermore, structural issues and process barriers have hindered the meaningful participation of women, so that even as numbers have gradually improved over time, more nuanced consideration of and action on gender issues has remained elusive, despite the relevant expertise and guidance being present in other parts of the UN system. Problems have included delays in the accreditation of women's groups as official stakeholders within the UNFCCC; 20 equity issues being viewed as North/South tensions rather than being defined by an intersectional analysis; 21 the dominance of scientific and economic knowledge and thinking; 22 and a characterisation of climate change as an urgent global problem justifying the exclusion of certain voices in order to solve more pressing issues. 23 As noted, there was no mention of gender in the UNFCCC when the Convention was adopted in 1992.…”

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Repositioning Gender: Past, Present and Future+

Maguire

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Mangubhai³

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Climate change is accelerating gender inequality, as climate extremes amplify inequalities, vulnerabilities, negative gender norms, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) rates increase during times of disaster. Yet the gendered experiences of climate change have to date been inadequately factored into climate law and policy-making, with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) traditionally limiting its focus to ‘gender balance’ in representation within the regime. This article explores the development of gender considerations within the UNFCCC by reflecting upon where we have come from, where we are now and where we are going with respect with gender. While there was very little progress in the early days of the UNFCCC, this article shows that from 2001 to the present there have been a series of small gains, which this article will explain and critique. Much remains to be done, however, for gender within the UNFCCC. In recommending future actions, it draws particularly on lessons from the Pacific and Australian experiences.

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Gender, climate change and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Engendering the Legal Framework for Environmentally Sustainable Development: Some Reflections

Engendering the Legal Framework for Environmentally Sustainable Development: Some Reflections

Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice

Repositioning Gender: Past, Present and Future+

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