{"id":2075,"date":"2017-11-28T14:55:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2017-11-28T14:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:55:47","slug":"gender-and-the-paris-agreement-to-the-unfccc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2017\/11\/28\/gender-and-the-paris-agreement-to-the-unfccc\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender and the Paris Agreement to the UNFCCC"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Katharine Vincent<\/em><\/p>\n

Climate change does not affect men and women in the same way.\u00a0 DECCMA recognises this and, through its research, aims to \u201cdeliver policy support to create the conditions for sustainable, gender-sensitive adaptation\u201d.\u00a0 How is DECCMA in line with the gender dimensions of climate change in international policy?<\/p>\n

\"\"

African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change side event at COP22 in Marrakech<\/p><\/div>\n

The Paris Agreement is the latest legally-binding outcome under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC<\/a>) \u2013 the global policy framework for addressing climate change.\u00a0 The Paris Agreement has been in the spotlight again after the recent 23rd<\/sup> Meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP)<\/a> to the UNFCCC, hosted by Fiji and held in Bonn.<\/p>\n

show more<\/p>

<\/p>\n

Despite the existing UNFCCC commitments to gender, the Paris Agreement is, outside of the Preamble, largely gender-blind. \u00a0A set of recent papers, commissioned by the African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change with the support of IDRC, show that the term \u201cgender\u201d features only three times throughout the whole Paris Agreement: once in the Preamble; once in Article 7 (adaptation-focused); and once in Article 1 (capacity building-focused).\u00a0 Neither the articles on mitigation nor technology transfer mention gender.<\/p>\n

By not explicitly referencing gender there is a risk that Parties do not apply a gender-responsive approach in implementing the Agreement, and thus existing gender inequalities are reinforced. \u00a0\u00a0Women typically have less control over land, lower education levels, more restricted mobility (due to their home-based roles), and poorer levels of participation in decision-making compared to men.\u00a0 However gender differences are context-specific and unpacking them is essential to develop gender-responsive adaptation.<\/p>\n

Within its household survey DECCMA has been investigating the different ways that men and women adapt to climate change in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna, Indian Bengal, Mahanadi and Volta deltas.\u00a0 It is our intention to use this to support gender-responsive adaptation, as outlined in Article 7 of the Paris Agreement.\u00a0 Gender-responsive adaptations are better targeted to the different needs of men and women, and thus more effective and efficient.\u00a0 We are also gender-sensitive in our capacity building attempts, and thus consistent with Article 11 of the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n

For a detailed gender analysis of the Paris Agreement, see this background paper<\/a> produced by the African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change (with support of IDRC<\/a>), and an accompanying gender-responsive implementation framework<\/a>.<\/p>\n

show less<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Katharine Vincent Climate change does not affect men and women in the same way.\u00a0 DECCMA recognises this and, through its research, aims to \u201cdeliver policy support to create the conditions for sustainable, gender-sensitive adaptation\u201d.\u00a0 How is DECCMA in line with the gender dimensions of climate change in international policy? The Paris Agreement is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1],"tags":[64,63],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature","category-uncategorised","tag-climate-change","tag-gender"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}