GenderCC Newsletter

The UNFCCC gender team is inviting interested stakeholders working with gender and climate to share with them strategic objectives, initiatives, events, workshops or other activities that relate to the gender and climate change nexus. The input can be voluntarily given through the online form . The gender team is also still accepting entries for the virtual market place that aims to showcase the work on gender and climate change, to support regional collaboration, cooperation and knowledge exchange by bringing actors together. 

The second year of implementation of the enhanced Lima work programme on gender and its gender action plan (GAP) will be focused on workshops, capacity building initiatives, webinars, support for building the skills and capacities of National Gender and Climate Change Focal Points (NGCCFPs), among other activities. There are open calls for submissions on two activities of the GAP (A4 and D5) for interested stakeholder, Parties and observers to contribute. To get all updates on the activities under the gender action plan, subscribe to the UNFCCC gender newsletter here 

During the global climate strike on March 19th, GenderCC participated in a series of paintings at the Oberbaumbrücke in Berlin, Germany, that portrayed a vision for a better world. Sarah from GenderCC was interviewed and the painting, as well as the interview, can be watched on the Fridays For Future live stream which is available here.

The Adaptation Fund has launched a new programme which will foster innovation of adaptation practices in vulnerable countries. UNEP-CTCN and UNDP are administrating the grants.  In the UNEP-CTCN programme, the second call for submission of applications is now open until 30 April 2021. More details can be found here

After 2,5 years working with GenderCC, Isadora says goodbye to the team. She will start a research fellowship with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, where she will keep working on the topics of gender and climate justice globally.

Vera leaves GenderCC to finish her studies abroad.  She is currently researching transnational climate litigation yet will continue to work on gender justice and climate change issues as a freelance writer.

It has increasingly been acknowledged that climate change has differentiated impacts on women and men, and on local and indigenous peoples. Women, especially poor women, are one of the groups most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and least likely to have the resources to cope with them. Because women are one of the most vulnerable groups, it’s essential that they are equally represented and equal participants and agents of change in climate change solution development – and that this is reflected in South Africa’s legislation and policy framework. Through Action 24 – Active Citizens of Responsive Legislatures, we have produced a research report to explore just that.’’ Read more here.   

“How have racism and colonialism contributed to creating the climate crisis; how have they shaped the response to it; and why is the crisis hitting Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPoC) the hardest? The framing paper addresses these questions through a broad framing of the complex historical and empirical realities that show that colonialism and racism have played an integral part in shaping, and continue to shape, climate change and climate policy to this day. The paper analyses the ways in which international climate governance continues to be steered by countries in the Global North – countries that fail to acknowledge their historical climate and development debts”. Read more here.

“Degrowth is the unlearning formula consisting of care, autonomy, and sufficiency. One that is essential for understanding that the end goal for degrowthers isn’t degrowth. Because it isn’t, decolonization is.” Read more here.

"Mainstreaming gender in water governance through “how to do gender” toolkits has long been a development focus. It has been widely argued that such toolkits simplify the complex, nuanced realities of inequalities by gender in relation to water and fail to pay attention to the fact that the proposed users of such gender-water toolkits, i.e. mostly male water sector professionals, lack the skills, motivation and/or incentives to apply these toolkits in their everyday work. We adopt a feminist political ecology lens to analyse some of the barriers to reduce social inequalities in the management of global commons such as international rivers. Our findings highlight the leap of faith made in the belief that gender toolkits, as they exist, will filter through layers of a predominantly masculine institutional culture to enable change in ground realities of complex inequalities by gender.’’ Read more here. 

Global Just Recovery Gathering   – 09-11 April. 

From the Ground Up: Take Action Now!  – 22-25 April