WUNRN
Heinrich Boell Foundation Foundation
UNFCCC - United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change
ADVANCING GENDER BALANCE &
GENDER RESPONSIVENESS IN CLIMATE FINANCE BODIES UNDER THE UNFCCC
Liane
Schalatek - September 9, 2013
At
COP18 in Doha, Decision 23/CP.18 on Promoting gender balance and
improving the participation of women in UNFCCC negotiations and in the representation
of Parties in bodies established pursuant to the Convention or the Kyoto
Protocol was taken as a crucial reaffirmation of the importance of
advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in international climate
change policy. It also requested Parties and observers to submit to the
UNFCCC Secretariat their views on options and ways to enhance the goal of
gender balance in bodies established under the Convention and the Kyoto
Protocol “in order to improve women’s participation and inform effective
climate change policy that addresses the needs of women and men equally.
This submission by the Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington Office focuses on
finance as a means of implementation of international climate policy and as key
to a new global climate agreement in 2015 and at current practices, challenges
and key actions possible in addressing gender equality concerns in climate
financing efforts and commitments under the UNFCCC. It argues that
implementation of Decision 23/CP.18 will be incomplete without significant
progress towards gender balance and gender-responsive climate finance policies
and actions in these bodies. And it singles out the Green Climate Fund,
currently being operationalized as an implementing entity under the UNFCCC’s
financial mechanism, in providing a unique opportunity to for the UNFCCC and
the COP in showcasing early action and lasting success in implementing Decision
23/CP.18 in a transformative and paradigm shifting way by making the GCF the
first finance body under the UNFCCC to start as a gender-responsive climate
fund from the outset.
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here for the complete text of the submission by the Heinrich Böll
Foundation (pdf, 6 pages)
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Decision 23/CP.18
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Submissions
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