Frequently Asked Questions on Human Rights and Climate Change: Fact Sheet No. 38

Year: 2021 Tags: Climate Change, Environmental Protection, Global

Fact Sheet No. 38 is a part of The Human Rights Fact Sheet series published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva. It deals with...Download

2019 Water and Gender Toolkit 1 - Gender-responsive indicators for water assessment, monitoring and reporting

Year: 2019 Author(s): M. Miletto, V. Pangare and L. Thuy Tags: Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Human Rights, Agriculture, Global

Water assessment can only be meaningful with a gender perspective. Identifying the factors that contribute to the inclusion or exclusion of women and men belonging to different social and cultural...Download

2019 Water and Gender Toolkit 3 - Guidelines on the collection of sex-disaggregated water data

Year: 2019 Author(s): V. Pangare, M. Miletto and L. Thuy Tags: Agriculture, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Human Rights, Global

Water assessment can only be meaningful with a gender perspective. Identifying the factors that contribute to the inclusion or exclusion of women and men belonging to different social and cultural...View

2019 Water and Gender Toolkit 4 - Questionnaire for the collection of sex-disaggregated water data

Year: 2019 Author(s): V. Pangare, M. Miletto and L. Thuy Tags: Agriculture, Human Rights, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Global

Water assessment can only be meaningful with a gender perspective. Identifying the factors that contribute to the inclusion or exclusion of women and men belonging to different social and cultural...View

Gender and Climate Change - Training Handbook

Year: 2018 Author(s): Višnja Baćanović and Jasmina Murić Tags: Capacity-Building, Climate Change Adaptation, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Climate Change Mitigation, Global

This material was created with the aim of improving the understanding of gender aspects in climate change. It is intended for expert and interested public, and it is prepared and organized as a...View

Gender just climate solutions

Year: 2016 Author(s): Women Gender Constituency Tags: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Mitigation, Disaster Risk Reduction, Governance, Human Rights, Civil Society, Capacity-Building, Global

The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) is a civil society observer – one of the nine stakeholder groups – of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Established in 2009...Download

Global gender and environment outlook

Year: 2016 Author(s): UNEP Tags: Climate Change Adaptation, SDGs, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Human Rights, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Civil Society, Global

The GGEO was first proposed to UN Environment by the Network of Women Ministers and Leaders for the Environment (NWMLE) at the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). In...Download

Pocket guide to gender equality under the UNFCCC

Year: 2018 Author(s): ECBI Tags: SDGs, Human Rights, Capacity-Building, Global

As the threat of climate change grows rather than diminishes, developing countries will need capable negotiators to defend their threatened populations. The Pocket Guides are a small contribution to...Download

Power for the people - delivering on the promise of decentralized, community controlled renewable energy access

Year: 2016 Author(s): Friends of the Earth Scottland, WEDO, ActionAid Tags: Climate Change Mitigation, SDGs, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Economic empowerment, Capacity-Building, Global

This paper makes the case that decentralized, community controlled renewable energy access is the solution to energy poverty in the context of climate change and broader social injustice. The current...Download

Summary report: Side event "Reach out for Resilience: Making Gender Equality Count for Climate Resilience"

Year: 2019 Author(s): UNEP and UN Women Tags: Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Economic empowerment, Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Preparedness, Global

The side event was hosted by UN Environment and UN Women under the  project  “EmPower: Women for Climate - Resilient Societies”, supported by the Government of Sweden.Download