COP28 - Gender Equality Day - “Climate change is not gender neutral”

Monday at COP28 was both Finance Day and Gender Equality Day, with discussions on financing gender-responsive just transition and climate action.

As Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion said, “Climate change is not gender neutral. Women make up the majority of the world’s poor and despite and maybe because of this women and girls are at the forefront of climate action.”

Some highlights:

• The Gender-Responsive Just Transitions & Climate Action Partnership was unveiled and endorsed by 60 countries contained a three-year package of measures to address the disproportionate impact of climate-related job loss on women.

   

• A report titled "Feminist Climate Justice: A Framework for Action", was launched by UN Women. The report identified the climate crisis as threatening progress on gender equality and human rights, and hindering the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The report describes how to achieve feminist climate justice and provides practical guidance on what countries need to do to transition to low-emission climate-resilient economies that, while recognizing the leadership of women, girls, and gender-diverse people in driving the change that is so urgently needed.

   

• Hillary Clinton said in an interview that the absence of women in climate talks is a major worry (The Independent)

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