Fleur Newman, Gender Affairs Officer, Lead - gender & climate change, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Presented at the WRI seminar Implementing Equality: Delivering Gender-Equitable Climate Commitments. Learn more: https://www.wri.org/events/2018/11/implementing-equality-delivering-gender-equitable-climate

1. UN Climate Change secretariat
Implementing Equality: Delivering Gender-
Equitable Climate Commitments
UNFCCC gender action plan
8 November 2018
WRI, Washington DC

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Increase
representation and
participation of women
Gender considerations in the UNFCCC process
Two year work
programme on gender
to 2016
Three year work
programme on
gender to 2019
Gender balance goal,
standing item on COP
agenda, reporting
Human rights
language, capacity-
building, adaption
Gender Action Plan

3. Other decisions including gender considerations
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COP decisions in other thematic areas referencing ‘gender’,
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4. UNFCCC gender action plan

5. Activities in 2018
➢ Technical paper on entry points for gender in work of constituted bodies
➢ Workshop on topics set out in Activity E.1
➢ Dialogue with Chairs of UNFCCC constituted bodies
➢ Capacity-building on gender integration for Chairs and members of
constituted bodies and UNFCCC technical teams
➢ Working breakfast with National Gender and Climate Change Focal
Points and Heads of Delegation
➢ Capacity-building webinar for National Gender and Climate Change Focal
Points

6. Next Steps in 2019
➢ Request for submissions by 31 March 2019: information was used
for workshop in 2018 and will be used for synthesis report /
assessment in 2019
➢ Three components, all to include sex-disaggregated data and
gender analysis, where applicable and available :
 The differentiated impacts of climate change on women
and men, with special attention paid to local communities
and indigenous peoples

7.  The integration of gender considerations into adaptation,
mitigation, capacity-building, Action for Climate
Empowerment (education, training, public awareness,
access to information and participation), technology and
finance policies, plans and actions
 Policies and plans for, and progress made, in enhancing
gender balance in national climate delegations

8. ➢ Other relevant activities:
 A.1: Capacity-building, knowledge sharing and communication
 B.3: Capacity-building training on leadership, negotiation, facilitation
and chairing in the context of the UNFCCC process in cooperation
with United Nations system wide efforts for women
 B.4: Cooperate in, promote, facilitate, develop and implement formal
and non-formal education and training programmes focused on
climate change
 C.2: Provide capacity-building to chairs and members of UNFCCC
constituted bodies and technical teams of the secretariat on how to
integrate gender considerations into their respective areas of work
and on meeting the goal of gender balance

9.  C.3: Share information on efforts made to support the
implementation of activities to enhance synergies with other United
Nations entities and processes, paying particular attention to the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (during COPs)
 D.3: Strengthen the capacity of gender mechanisms (et al) for the
integration of gender-responsive budgeting into climate finance,
access and delivery through training, expert workshops, technical
papers and tools
 Workshop at SB50, June 2019, on the short- and long-term impacts of
the gender action plan
 A synthesis report (second half 2019) on the implementation of the
gender action plan, identifying areas of progress, areas for
improvement and further work to be undertaken in subsequent
action plans

10. Fleur Newman
Gender Affairs Officer
fnewman@unfccc.int
gender-team@unfccc.int