The Global Gender and Climate Alliance Gender-sensitive strategies for mitigation actions Rose Mwebaza (PhD)

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Gender-sensitive strategies

for mitigation actions

Rose Mwebaza (PhD)

The Global Gender and Climate Alliance

Basic considerationsWhile there has already been some exploration of the links between adaptation to climate change and gender equality, the gender aspects of mitigation are still at an initial stage

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Basic considerations• Certain areas in which mitigation

actions are being proposed women have proven to be crucial (reforestation, conservation of forests, consumption and energy)

• What has been lacking is awareness, recognition and acknowledgement of the role and input that rural and urban women from developed and developing countries have had and are having

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Carbon capture, fixing or sequestration

• Management or conservation of forests, men and women often have different productive and reproductive roles with regard to forest resource management

• Women’s groups have also proven to be vital for the conservation of forests all around the world

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• Men and women have different roles with regard to forest resource management. They play different parts in planting, protecting or caring for seedlings and small trees, as well as in planting and maintaining homestead woodlots and plantations on public lands

• Women’s role in reforestation, deforestation and aforestation

Forest+ REDD

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• International REDD negotiations and schemes must ensure compliance with international and national commitments on gender equality and equity, including CEDAW

• Ensure full participation and integration of women, from local and indigenous communities, in policy design processes

Making REDD work for Gender Equality

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• Equitable access to, and distribution of, the economic benefits derived from forest services provided to mitigate climate change

• Promote equal access of women to land ownership and other resources

• Both women and men must be trained in methods to increase carbon sequestration through forestry technologies, etc.

Making REDD work for Gender Equality

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Reducing emissions through clean energy sources and technologies

• In developing countries, especially in rural areas, there is a direct connection between energy supplies and gender roles. Burning biomass for household cooking, heating and lighting represents a high percentage of many countries’ overall energy use

• Biofuels, new technologies

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Studies conducted by the OECD gender has a huge influence on sustainable consumption, partly due to the differing consumption patterns of men and women:

•In some OECD countries, women make over 80% of consumption decisions

•Women are more likely to be sustainable consumers, e.g. they tend to buy eco-labelled or organic food, have a higher propensity to recycle and place more value on efficient energy than men

•Women pay closer attention in their purchases to ethical issues such as child labour and fair trade

Consumption

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• Campaigns and education efforts directed at changing consumer patterns and incorporating principles of sustainable consumption, as a mitigation strategy to climate change, must consider women as one of the most important target groups

• Additionally, women are still, in many countries, responsible for transmitting education and environmental principles to their children

Consumption

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A CALL TO ACTION