This OECD Global Forum on Environment dedicated on "Mainstreaming Gender and Empowering Women for Environmental Sustainability" took place on the 5th and 6th March 2020. Over two days, participants discussed the gender – environmental sustainability nexus, identifying and proposing ways to capitalise on synergies between environmental policies and economic and social goals, such as achieving gender equality and women’s economic empowerment. The Global Forum covered the following issues: • Integrating gender into environmental policies: Data and evidence challenges; • Differentiated environmental impacts on women’s and men’s health and well-being; • Sustainable and gender-inclusive urbanisation, settlements and transport infrastructure; • Gender-specific consumption patterns, behavioural insights, and circular economy; • Biodiversity, agriculture, fisheries: changing economic opportunities for women and men; • Greening energy and ensuring a just transition for men and women; • Environmental justice and empowering women and youth. More information on the Global Forum on Environment focusing on gender can be found here: http://www.oecd.org/env/global-forum-on-environment-mainstreaming-gender-and-empowering-women-for-environmental-sustainability.htm More information on the OECD Environment Directorate’s work on gender, inclusiveness and the SDGs can be found here: http://www.oecd.org/environment/gender-inclusiveness-and-sdg.htm

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The Role of Nuclear power in greening
energy and ensuring a “just transition”
for men and women
2020 Global Forum on Environment
Paris, France - March 6th, 2020
Dr. Sama BILBAO Y LEON
Head of the Division of Nuclear Technology Development and Economics

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1. Decarbonizing the economy to address
Climate Change
2. Ensuring global access to clean, affordable
and reliable energy
Two Competing Challenges
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IEA WEO 2018
Despite the impressive growth of solar and wind power, the overall share of clean energy
sources in total electricity supply in 2018, at 36%, was the same as it was 20 years earlier.
Global electricity generation
by source 2000-2017
Not doing well to achieve #1

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IEA WEO 2018
… or #2

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• Low carbon electricity to play a key role in future decarbonized energy
markets
– Electrification of the transportation sector
– Electrification of the industrial sector
– Electrification of the buildings sector (heating/cooling)
• Decarbonisation of electricity markets requires all fuels and all
technologies
– Renewables (Wind and Solar)
– Hydropower
– Nuclear power
– Energy efficiency (supply side and demand side)
– Carbon capture utilization and sequestration (CCUS)
– Energy storage
• New challenges
– Need for improved infrastructures to ensure interconnectivity
– Need flexibility - interconnectivity is not enough
– Need market signals fostering investment in infrastructure,
capacity and flexibility
– Need large level of coordination in policy and regulation
Electricity as the cornerstone of energy
decarbonisation
Graphic: Courtesy of EPRI

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Access to 24/7 reliable clean affordable
electricity will facilitate…
• … access to clean water
• … access to health services
• … improved quality of life
• … access to education
• Will particularly help empower girls and women

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NEA Exploratory Meeting on Improving
the Gender Balance in Nuclear Energy
10-11 December 2019
• Goal: To support NEA members by increasing the prominence of gender
balance within national and global policy agendas and finding paths to take
substantive action
 Experts and professionals
representing ministries,
regulators, TSOs,
international organizations
participated from 12
member countries

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First Exploratory Meeting – Paris, July 24-25, 2019
NEA GLOBAL FORUM ON NUCLEAR
EDUCATION, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND
POLICY

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Key Learnings
• Women tend to be less supportive of nuclear science and
technology
• Stereotypical cultural and societal mindsets steer girls and
women away from STEM careers – nuclear technology among
them
• Role models are key to attracting females into nuclear sector.
• Emphasis of social utility of nuclear science and technology
important to reach girls and women
• Need for equitable opportunities for career growth considering
life events

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Possible Areas for Progress
• Early engagement is indispensable… but engage not only girls,
also boys, their parents, their teachers…
• NEA Mentoring Workshops.
• Joint forces with existing platforms: International Gender
Champions Network Impact Group for Women in STEM, C3E,
Equal by 30, etc.
• Creating platforms for joint international events on nuclear
topics that have significant female contribution.

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